Radical America #10.04: US Working Class and Unemployed Organizing

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Introduction
Wage labor in the U.S. today (Brecher, Jeremy Costello, Tim)
The working class struggle against the crisis self-reduction of prices in Italy (Ramirez, Bruno)
Organizing the unemployed the early years of the great depression, 1929-1933 (Rosenzweig, Roy)
The ambiguous legacy (O'Brien, Jim)
Letters

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