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- ↑ Higbie, Tobias (2019). Labor's Mind: A History of Working-Class Intellectual Life. University of Illinois Press. pp. 78–82. doi:10.5406/j.ctv9b2x1j.8. ISBN 978-0-252-04226-3.
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- ↑ "L.A. Councilmen push for ordinance to crack down on wage theft". Los Angeles Times. June 24, 2014.