Download or read book Popular Radicalism and the Unemployed in Chicago During the Great Depression written by Chris Wright and published by . This book was released on 2022-06-14 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The long-term unemployed in the Great Depression were not the mute, passive victims of circumstance we might think. Their collective struggles for survival challenged fundamental institutions of capitalism, and in their successes and failures hold lessons for us today.