Popular Radicalism and the Unemployed in Chicago During the Great Depression

by Chris Wright

In a time when mass joblessness and precarious employment are becoming issues of national concern, it is useful to reconsider the experiences of the unemployed in an earlier period of economic hardship, the Great Depression. How did they survive, and how did they fight against inhumane government policies? Americans are often thought to be a very conservative and individualistic people, but the collective struggles of the supposedly "meek" and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 183999021X
• ISBN13: 9781839990212
• Release Date: September 2023
• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"