We Want Jobs!
A Story of the Great Depression
by Robert J. Norrell, Alex Haley, John Waskowitz, Jan Naimo Jones, and John Waskowitz
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Uses the experiences of an unemployed steel worker and his family in Pittsburgh to descirbe the events of the economic depression that gripped the country from 1929 through 1933.
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Depressions, Unemployed, Iron and steel workers, Economic conditions, Juvenile literature, Reference, Juvenile History, Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Nonfiction, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, History - United States/20th Century, 1929, Economic history, Depressions, 1929, juvenile literaturePlaces
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We Want Jobs!: A Story of the Great Depression
1993, Raintree Steck-Vaughn
in English
0811472299 9780811472296
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We Want Jobs: A Story of the Great Depression (Stories of America)
October 1992, Steck-Vaughn
Paperback
in English
0811480690 9780811480697
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We Want Jobs!: A Story of the Great Depression (Stories of America)
October 1992, Steck-Vaughn
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in English
0811472299 9780811472296
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"Based on an interview that ... John Waskowitz gave in 1974 to the Pittsburgh Oral History Project, sponsored by the Pennsylvania Historical Museum and Commission"--Pref.
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We Want Jobs! uses the experiences of an unemployed steel worker and his family in Pittsburgh to describe the events of the economic depression that gripped America from 1929 through 1933.
In Pittsburgh, steelworker John Waskowitz and his family were already suffering from the effects of the Great Depression like millions of others in 1929. As factories cut back on work days or closed altogether, many people found themselves jobless. Despair grips the nation. John was so desperate for work that he walked ten miles out of town, only to find factory after factory along his route shut down. Many give up, John, with scores of other unemployed Americans, begins the call for government action.
Robert J. Norrell is a published author of several children’s books. Some of his published credits include: We Want Jobs!: A Story of The Great Depression (Stories of America), Up from History: The Life of Booker T. Washington and Promising Field (Hardcover).
John Waskowitz is a published author of several children’s books. Some of her published credits include: We Want Jobs!: A Story of The Great Depression (Stories of America), Tales From The Underground Railroad (Stories of America) and Dust Bowl Days: Hard Times For Farmers (Voices from America’s Past).
Jan Naimo Jones is a published author and an illustrator of several children’s books. Some of her published credits include: We Want Jobs!: A Story of The Great Depression (Stories of America), These Lands Are Ours: Tecumseh’s Fight For The Old Northwest (Stories of America) and Grandma, What Is Prayer? (Hardcover Edition)
Alex Haley, as General Editor, wrote the introduction.
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