Title: This American Life

Date: 1999

Media type: Podcast

Format: Complete

TV Season-Episode: Family-Business

Category: Families in Society, Family Resource Management

Keywords: work and family, financial management

Rating: NR

Audience(s): Children Under 12, High School Age, College Age, Adults

Language: English

Film/Episode Summary: Stories of family businesses are discussed. The pressures of economics on families, especially when the members of the family help to run and manage the business.

Comments or Recommendations for Teaching: Why do economic pressures tend to harm relationships? Is there truth in the adage that you should never hire family? Why? How would you work with your own family?

Places to view: Hulu

Contributor: Ian Brunzell-Looney