| Job Seekers in Detroit, 1930, Unemployment ravaged
working and middle class Americans, and male breadwinners spent long hours
and weeks trying to find work. Waiting in endless lines like this one was
in Detroit not uncommon for job-seeking Americans. Even with the creation
of job works programs in the mid-1930s, employment was hard to come by even
for the most qualified of workers. Source: Detroit Free Press. |