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Excerpt from "Tenement-House Cigar Manufacture"
Published in the New Yorker Volkszeitung, October 31, 1881
"For many years the system… Unions , Unions
EMERGENCE OF TRADE UNIONS
THE KNIGHTS OF LABOR
THE AFL AND THE IWW
THE CIO
THE IMPACT OF GLOBALIZATION
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Unions are organizations o…
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