See also Cloward and Piven, "Poor Peoples' Movements."
On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 12:20 PM, Sandy Harris <sandyinchina at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/6/09, brad bauerly <bbauerly at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Does anyone know the history of attempts to build a union of the unemployed
>> in the US or attempts by organized labor to reach out to the unemployed?
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> Didn't the Wobblies do some of that?
>
> Their line was "one big union", the whole working class. They thought
> having separate unions for, say, steel workers and farm labourers was
> just playing into the hands of the bosses, allowing divide & conquer.
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