Wollongong Out Of Workers' Union interviews

A series of interviews with Wollongong Out Of Workers' Union (WOW) activists in the 1980s, conducted 2005-6 by Nick Southall as part of his honours thesis research, investigating WOW as a project expressing proletarian self-activity.

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