Popular Radicalism and the Unemployed in Chicago during the Great Depression Fernando Canet

Popular Radicalism and the Unemployed in Chicago during the Great Depression Fernando CanetIn 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. Focusing on the bellwether city of Chicago, this book reevaluates their struggles, revealing the kernel of political radicalism and class resistance in practices that are usually thought of as apolitical and un ideological. From

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