There was "Father Cox's Army" of 1932, in which Father James Renshaw Cox led 20,000 unemployed Pennsylvanians to march for the creation of a public works program during the Great Depression.
Not choices about whether to stand for parliament, or instigate pay transparency in the office or lead an unemployed worker's union, or form a women-only consciousness-raising group in their town; far from it.
Later, he travelled to Europe on a fellowship to work initially in Sicily with Dolci, "the Sicilian Gandhi", whose campaigning on behalf of the poor and unemployed led to two Nobel prize nominations.
He maintained that he heard a voice commanding him, as a Christian, to free the Zanzibari people from the Arabs, and it was Okello who led the revolutionaries mainly unemployed members of the Afro-Shirazi Youth League on 12 January.
In 1935 he refused to allow communist-led unemployed workers to march from British Columbia to Ottawa, a move that precipitated a major riot in Regina, Saskatchewan, in July 1935 when the "On to Ottawa" demonstrators clashed with police.
Pay freezes and cuts in hours largely took the place of the kind of devastating jobs shakeout that led to more than three million unemployed after the 1981 recession.
This had led to "several million retired, unemployed and underemployed people living on bare subsistence incomes in private rental or social housing.
The protesters, led at first by unemployed college graduates like Mr. Bouazizi and later joined by workers and young professionals, found grist for the complaints in leaked cables from the United States Embassy in Tunisia, released by WikiLeaks, that detailed the self-dealing and excess of the president's family.
The Lift programme ran a pilot project in Tredegar at the local fire station - it started in the gym and then led to long-term unemployed people working together and building self-confidence as they looked to find out how to work out in the world.
A year earlier, police in Dearborn, Michigan, had fired on an army of unemployed workers led by Communist Party officials, killing five and injuring dozens more.
Such conditions are further exacerbated by the economic nosedive Greece has experienced during the recession — which has left nearly 30percentt of adults and nearly 60percentt of young people unemployed — and led to the anti-immigrant, racist fears that have allowed for the proliferation of the Golden Dawn party.
