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• 1.   "Blind, But Not to the Hard Facts of Life": The Blind Workers' Struggle in Derry, 1928 --1940

  This article recounts the protest struggles of blind workers on Derry, Northern Ireland from the 1920 to 1939.

  

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  The article recounts the protest struggles of blind workers on Derry, Northern Ireland from the 1920 to 1939. The city's economic downturn that accelerated as the global recession increased after 1929. This compounded already high infant mortality rates, unsanitary and overcrowded living conditions, and already high levels of male unemployment. By 1939, a protest was organized in order more...

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  Northern Ireland

  Radical History Review,
  Máirtín Catháin

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