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Amidst the current debates on the future of welfare, one voice has been conspicuously absent: that of the unemployed and underprivileged. The result of almost a half-century of research, America Before Welfare traces the leadership and activities of the unemployed from industrialization to the outbreak of World War II. It is at once a profound work of history and an anecdotal window onto America's past, in the days before FDR's New Deal.

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<p> Eloquent, exciting, inspirational, and an important piece of the forgotten history of people's struggles for justice in the United States. Folsom has done an extraordinary ob of research, and he writes with great style.

<p> Eloquent, exciting, inspirational, and an important piece of the forgotten history of people's struggles for justice in the United States. Folsom has done an extraordinary ob of research, and he writes with great style. -Howard Zinn, author of A People's History of The United States

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Described by the Village Voice as,""an autodidact in the finest American tradition,"" the late Franklin Folsom was a journalist, editor, and activist, as well as the author of numerous books.

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