Author Description

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.