economic conditions

"The Roaring Twenties ... came to a screeching halt in October 1929. The U.S. stock market crashed, kicking off one of the largest and longest depressions in the country's history"--Back cover.

Chronicles the experiences of six teen mothers whom Joanna Lipper met when they were all enrolled in the Teen Parent Program in Pittsfield, Massachusetts in 1999.

Explores the workforce during the Industrial Revolution.

Examines how international pirate, John Avery, sparked multinational capitalism in the seventeenth century.

When she was only nine, Dayani Baldelomar left her Nicaraguan village with nothing more than a change of clothes. She was among tens of thousands of rural migrants to Managua in the 1980s and 1990s.

Explores the extreme differences in income distribution and the corporate leaders and decision maker's exploitation of that difference.

Through this book, students will gain a general understanding of economic cycles and how depressions are not part of the normal ebb and flow.

Describes the history surrounding the Great Depression, highlighting the causes and key figures.

"Bankruptcy and the austerity it represents have become a common 'solution' for struggling American cities. What do the spending cuts and limited resources do to the lives of city residents? In Broke, Jodie Adams Kirshner follows seven Detroiters as they navigate life during and after their city's bankruptcy. Reggie loses his savings trying to make a habitable home for his family. Cindy fights drug use, prostitution, and dumping on her block. Lola commutes two hours a day to her suburban job. For them, financial issues are mired within the larger ramifications of poor urban policies, restorative negligence on the state and federal level and--even before the decision to declare Detroit bankrupt in 2013--the root causes of a city's fiscal demise"--Provided by the publisher.