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Primary Source Documents on Work and Employment

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Excerpt from a conference brochure on economic dislocation: "Community or Chaos," Nov. 1981 (916 MB)

Article in CalCap Newsletter: L.A. Groups Testify on Federal Plant Closure Bill, August 1983 (800 KB)

Excerpt from a pamphlet Fighting Shutdowns in Sunny California, Summer 1984 (696 KB)

Excerpt from a pamphlet Plant Closures: Myths, Realities, and Responses, by Gilda Haas, 1985 (424 KB)

"We Built This City": a labor map of Los Angeles produced by the Southern California Library (1.7 MB)

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