Eleni Schirmer is a writer living in Montréal. She holds a postdoc at Concordia University’s Social Justice Centre and organizes with Debt Collective. The accounts and information in this article were based on scholarship and research from Linda Gordon, Edwin Amenta and Steven Burg, among others, as well as interviews and primary source documents.
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