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More than a Century before the welfare state and comprehensive social services took shape, the early trade societies and unions had worked out an elaborate method of coping with unemployment that the industrial revolution made a constant feature of…

Now in his 70s Harry Bridges has had a long, exciting career as an independent, incorruptible, often intransigent labor leader. As a young Australian immigrant, he was a seaman and longshoreman on the West Coast, helped to organize the longshoreman…