Unemployment Line, Logan Square, Chicago, 1975

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Channel: Media Burn Archive · 2012 · People & Blogs

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Daughter translates for her father at the Illinois Department of Labor, Bureau of Employment Security, in order to collect the father's unemployment checks. Shot by Skip Blumberg and Anda Korsts for Videopolis's "It's a Living" series loosely based on Studs Terkel's book "Working."

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