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Living in the UXA

by | Jan 26, 2022 | All Work, Articles, Cooperatives & Cultural Revolution | 0 comments

At the height of the Great Depression, a group of unemployed Oakland workers decided to take matters into their own hands. The system wasn’t working, so they set up their own system. Money was nearly worthless, so they decided to live by barter. They called themselves the Unemployed Exchange Association and they soon went on to write a remarkable chapter in American economic history. This is their story. (East Bay Express, 1983).

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