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Vulnerable Akron: the first great sit-down

Conatz, Juan
http://libcom.org/library/vulnerable-akron-first-great-sit-down

Date Written:  23/12/2013
Year Published:  2013  
Resource Type:  Article

Akron, rubber manufacturing capital of the world. A drab Mid-Western industrial city of 255,000. A city with a hum, a throb, anodor all its own. It made the front pages in February, 1936. A strike had closed the largest tire factory on the globe, which had 14,000 employees.

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