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The Working Class and the People's Charter

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 December 2008

James A. Epstein
Affiliation:
National Humanities Center

Abstract

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Review Essays
Copyright
Copyright © International Labor and Working-Class History, Inc. 1985

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