Popular Radicalism and the Unemployed in Chicago during the Great Depression

Popular Radicalism and the Unemployed in Chicago during the Great DepressionIn 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

Looking at many untouched sources

The resulting text provides fascinating and revealing insights for cultural and political historians

‘The Retreat of Democracy’ presents an expanded and reworked selection of Basu's best journalistic writings on political and economic themes since the late 1990s

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In a novel about a novelist writing a novel that mirrors the novel he is in

provoking a bitter and bloody repression

providing a clear and exhaustive analysis of the different approaches to the future of Britain’s second chamber

the generational transmission of trauma and experience

Comprising his short unpublished autobiography

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including disaster preparedness