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Unit 9: Period 9: 1980–Present

A Changing Economy

Explain how computers, the internet and global trade remade American work after 1980: rising productivity, fewer factory and union jobs, flat wages and wider inequality.

Topic 9.4 · 13 min read

This lesson comes with the AP United States History plan

In this lesson

  1. 01Computers, the internet and a new kind of daily life
  2. 02Productivity and the global economy
  3. 03Fewer factory jobs, more service jobs, weaker unions
  4. 04Stagnant wages and growing inequality
  5. 05Worked examples
  6. 06Where students lose points
  7. 07On the exam

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