Urban America- Great Depression to 2008

    The first image shows a demonstration of unemployed workers with their various trades on display, prepared to labour for $1 a week during The Great Depression of the 1930's. This shows the desperate measures that the depression made people take when confronted with the economic poverty that the Depression enforced through the massive loss of jobs; at this time 'in the United States, the percentage of the population that was out of work rose to 25 percent of the workforce at its highest level. This number translated to 15 million American being without work.'

     This is similar to the image below taken from Wall Street in September 2008 after the financial crisis. '"While the gestures of protest were familiar - satirical costumes of billionaires, hand-made signs, numerous bells and horns to draw attention to the cause - some deep-seated anger about an administration and Congress bailout deal for Wall Street was apparent today in a late afternoon protest in the financial district. "