Source: People's Weekly World Newspaper
Author: Eric Brooks
Date: 07/30/09 11:56
Unemployment and underemployment are causing misery, homelessness, hunger, and fear in the lives of tens of millions of working class people and our families, devastating communities, and impacting people of color, particularly African-Americans, Latinos, and most of all Native Americans disproportionately.
Those with money, the rich and the powerful, may find the masses of the unemployed an annoyance but, as Franklin Folsom writes in "Impatient Armies of the Poor: The Story of Collective Action of the Unemployed 1808-1942," for the unemployed ourselves, leaving "a job means leaving a center and moving toward a periphery. It means leaving a collective pattern and entering formless isolation. Uniting under a boss or against a boss is a clear, understandable concept, but uniting against bosslessness is a very different matter."
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