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The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave.

James Connolly

1915

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Oppression of women Men and women Anti-capitalism Capitalism

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Connolly, James. Labour in Ireland: Labour in Irish History: the Re-conquest of Ireland. Dublin: Irish Workers' Cooperative Society, 1915.

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