Radicals and the jobless: the Musteites and the unemployed leagues, 1932-1936 - Roy Rosenzweig

A paper by Roy Rosenzweig about the American Workers Party and its organizations for the unemployed during the 1930s.

Originally appeared in Labor History (Volume 16, Issue 1, 1975)

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I read this when first

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