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It's the Degree that Counts

· International, first series, Vol. 2, No. 5, May 1969 · p. 6 · 202 words

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[illegible — the opening of this article on scan page 6 is heavily column-merged and largely unrecoverable] the degree of exploitation [illegible]. The American historian [illegible]. The British proletariat suffered far greater hardship in the nineteenth century than it does today. In consequence the reaction to exploitation was both more militant and more consistent. Here in Nottingham there were [illegible] Chartist meetings of three thousand people when the population of the town was only around fifty thousand.

[illegible] interesting to see that the girl who [illegible] with [illegible] the issue of [illegible] willing to [illegible] discrimination [illegible].

[illegible] tions of [illegible] white workers to [illegible] and blacks, [illegible] this minority to be institutionalised [illegible] black workers - especially [illegible] America [illegible].

[illegible] car industries that [illegible] in certain American industries is becoming [illegible], and it is possible that the same is happening in related industries in Britain.

[illegible] the system under which she works, [illegible] the employer's specific demand that [illegible] an inhuman pace that causes [illegible] degree of exploitation, again, crystallises the [illegible] why are women reacting NOW to discrimination instead of [illegible].

[illegible — the remainder of the article on scan page 7 is heavily degraded and only partly legible]

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