Wobblies Of The World

Author : Peter Cole,David M. Struthers,Kenyon Zimmer
Publisher : Wildcat
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Industrial Workers Of The World
ISBN : 0745399592

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Wobblies of the World by Peter Cole,David M. Struthers,Kenyon Zimmer Pdf

Founded in 1905, Chicago's Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) is a union unlike any other. With members affectionately called "Wobblies" and an evolutionary and internationalist philosophy and tactics, it rapidly grew across the world. Considering the history of the IWW from an international perspective for the first time, Wobblies of the World brings together a group of leading scholars to present a lively collection of accounts from thirteen diverse countries, revealing a fascinating story of anarchism, syndicalism, and socialism. Drawing on many important figures of the movement--Har Dayal, James Larkin, William D. "Big Bill" Haywood, Enrique Flores Mag n, and more--the contributors describe how the IWW and its ideals spread, exploring the crucial role the IWW played in industries such as shipping, mining, and agriculture. Ultimately, the book illuminates Wobblie methods of organizing, forms of expression, practices, and transnational issues, offering a fascinating alternative history of the group.

Author : Peter Cole,David M. Struthers,Kenyon Zimmer
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : International labor activities
ISBN : 0745399606

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Wobblies of the World by Peter Cole,David M. Struthers,Kenyon Zimmer Pdf

A history of the global nature of the radical union, The Industrial Workers of the World

Author : Paul Buhle,Nicole Schulman
Publisher : Verso
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2005-04-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1844675254

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Wobblies! by Paul Buhle,Nicole Schulman Pdf

A vibrant history in graphic art of the Wobblies, published for the centenary of the founding of the Industrial Workers of the World.

Author : Nigel Anthony Sellars
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0806130059

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Oil, Wheat & Wobblies by Nigel Anthony Sellars Pdf

The Industrial Workers of the World, or Wobblies, a radical labor union, played an important role in Oklahoma between the founding of the union in 1905 and its demise in 1930. In Oil, Wheat, & Wobblies, Nigel Anthony Sellars describes IWW efforts to organize migratory harvest hands and oil-field workers in the state and relationships between the union and other radical and labor groups such as the Socialist Party and the American Federation of Labor. Focusing on the emergence of migratory labor and the nature of the work itself in industrializing the region, Sellars provides a social history of labor in the Oklahoma wheat belt and the midcontinent oil fields. Using court cases and legislation, he examines the role of state and federal government in suppressing the union during World War I. Oil, What, & Wobblies concludes with a description of the IWW revival and subsequent decline after the war, suggesting that the decline is attributable more to the union's failure to adapt to postwar technological change, its rigid attachment to outmoded tactics, and its internal policy disputes, than to political repression. In Sellars's view, the failure of the IWW in Oklahoma largely explains the failure of both the IWW and the labor movement in the United States during the twenties.

Author : Peter Cole
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : International labor activities
ISBN : 1786801515

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Wobblies of the World by Peter Cole Pdf

A history of the global nature of the radical union, The Industrial Workers of the World.

Author : Archie Green,David Roediger,Franklin Rosemont,Salvatore Salerno
Publisher : PM Press
Page : 673 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781629632605

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Big Red Songbook by Archie Green,David Roediger,Franklin Rosemont,Salvatore Salerno Pdf

In 1905, representatives from dozens of radical labor groups came together in Chicago to form One Big Union—the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), known as the Wobblies. The union was a big presence in the labor movement, leading strikes, walkouts, and rallies across the nation. And everywhere its members went, they sang. Their songs were sung in mining camps and textile mills, hobo jungles and flop houses, and anywhere workers might be recruited to the Wobblies’ cause. The songs were published in a pocketsize tome called the Little Red Songbook, which was so successful that it’s been published continuously since 1909. In The Big Red Songbook, the editors have gathered songs from over three dozen editions, plus additional songs, rare artwork, personal recollections, discographies, and more into one big all-embracing book. IWW poets/composers strove to nurture revolutionary consciousness. Each piece, whether topical, hortatory, elegiac, or comic served to educate, agitate, and emancipate workers. A handful of Wobbly numbers have become classics, still sung by labor groups and folk singers. They include Joe Hill’s sardonic “The Preacher and the Slave” (sometimes known by its famous phrase “Pie in the Sky”) and Ralph Chaplin’s “Solidarity Forever.” Songs lost or found, sacred or irreverent, touted or neglected, serious or zany, singable or not, are here. The Wobblies and their friends have been singing for a century. May this comprehensive gathering simultaneously celebrate past battles and chart future goals. In addition to the 250+ songs, writings are included from Archie Green, Franklin Rosemont, David Roediger, Salvatore Salerno, Judy Branfman, Richard Brazier, James Connell, Carlos Cortez, Bill Friedland, Virginia Martin, Harry McClintock, Fred Thompson, Adam Machado, and many more.

Author : Peter Cole
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780252090851

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Wobblies on the Waterfront by Peter Cole Pdf

The rise and fall of America's first truly interracial labor union For almost a decade during the 1910s and 1920s, the Philadelphia waterfront was home to the most durable interracial, multiethnic union seen in the United States prior to the CIO era. For much of its time, Local 8 was majority black, always with a cadre of black leaders. The union also claimed immigrants from Eastern Europe, as well as many Irish Americans, who had a notorious reputation for racism. This important study is the first book-length examination of how Local 8, affiliated with the Industrial Workers of the World, accomplished what no other did at the time. Peter Cole outlines the factors that were instrumental in Local 8's success, both ideological (the IWW's commitment to working-class solidarity) and pragmatic (racial divisions helped solidify employer dominance). He also shows how race was central not only to the rise but also to the decline of Local 8, as increasing racial tensions were manipulated by employers and federal agents bent on the union's destruction.

Author : Greg Hall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114259836

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Harvest Wobblies by Greg Hall Pdf

Increased Mechanization and the expansion of new markets transformed the face of American farming in the early decades of the twentieth century, especially in the American West. These changes demanded a new kind of agricultural worker--gone was the local farmhand, replaced by a cheap and temporary labor force of migrant and seasonal workers. Greg Hall's fascinating book analyzes how "harvest Wobblies," members of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), organized these men, women, and sometimes children who had become so essential and yet so exploited on the farms of the West. Although harvest Wobblies worked in nearly all the western states, their stongholds were the Great Plains, California, and the Pacific Northwest, regions where harmers developed monocrop agriculture and where seasonal labor was indispensable come harvest time. Like their IWW brethren in logging camps and mines, the harvest Wobblies combined an effort to improve the lives of workers with harger revolutionary goals. Harvest Wobblies personified most of the indelible features of IWW membership: they were the militant casual laborers of the American West, riding the rails, living in hobo jungles, preaching revolution, and facing repression with innovative strategies, impassioned speech, humor, and song. Through trial and error, Wobbly organizers eventually implemented the idea of an industrial union in agriculture and helped the IWW to establish itself as a powerful force to be reckoned with by employers in the West. In tracing the rise and the eventual fall of the harvest Wobblies, Greg Hall examines the diverse and changing nature of the agricultural work force. He offers a social and cultural history of a union uniquely suited to organizing tens of thousands of migrant and seasonal workers. Harvest Wobblies will appeal to a broad audience of readers interested in labor history, the American West, U.S. agricultural history, and the history of the IWW.

Author : Melvyn Dubofsky
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0252069056

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We Shall be All by Melvyn Dubofsky Pdf

Dubofsky's careful historical treatment does not support or deny the ideology of the "Wobblies", but rather he attempts to understand the leadership and motivation of the early twentieth-century labor movement.

Author : Staughton Lynd,Andrej Grubačić
Publisher : PM Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2008-09-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781604861853

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Wobblies and Zapatistas by Staughton Lynd,Andrej Grubačić Pdf

Wobblies and Zapatistas offers the reader an encounter between two generations and two traditions. Andrej Grubačić is an anarchist from the Balkans. Staughton Lynd is a lifelong pacifist, influenced by Marxism. They meet in dialogue in an effort to bring together the anarchist and Marxist traditions, to discuss the writing of history by those who make it, and to remind us of the idea that “my country is the world.” Encompassing a Left-libertarian perspective and an emphatically activist standpoint, these conversations are meant to be read in the clubs and affinity groups of the new Movement. The authors accompany us on a journey through modern revolutions, direct actions, antiglobalist counter-summits, Freedom Schools, Zapatista cooperatives, Haymarket and Petrograd, Hanoi and Belgrade, “intentional” communities, wildcat strikes, early Protestant communities, Native American democratic practices, the Workers’ Solidarity Club of Youngstown, occupied factories, self-organized councils and soviets, the lives of forgotten revolutionaries, Quaker meetings, antiwar movements, and prison rebellions. Neglected and forgotten moments of interracial self-activity are brought to light. The book invites the attention of readers who believe that a better world, on the other side of capitalism and state bureaucracy, may indeed be possible.

Author : Verity Burgmann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521476984

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Revolutionary Industrial Unionism by Verity Burgmann Pdf

A history of the International Workers of the World (IWW) in Australia, this book is both lively and scholarly.

Author : Salvatore Salerno
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1989-07-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0791400891

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Red November, Black November by Salvatore Salerno Pdf

Red November, Black November is a study of the culture of the I. W. W. movement at the turn of the twentieth century. It analyzes the Wobblies’ use of cultural expressions such as songs, poems, and cartoons as a means of educating and unifying workers, and as weapons in the struggle against the repressive social conditions of industrial development. The book emphasizes the important role played by immigrant activists, Wobbly artists, and intellectuals, offering a fascinating portrait of the complexity of pre-World War I labor radicalism.

Author : Patrick Renshaw
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Labor movement
ISBN : OCLC:1200077729

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The Wobblies by Patrick Renshaw Pdf

Author : Eric Thomas Chester
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781440833021

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The Wobblies in Their Heyday by Eric Thomas Chester Pdf

During World War I, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) rose to prominence as an effective, militant union and then was destroyed by a devastating campaign of repression launched by the federal government. This book documents the rise and fall of this important industrial labor organization. The Industrial Workers of the World—or "Wobblies," as they were known—included legendary figures from U.S. labor history. Joe Hill, "Big Bill" Haywood, and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn have become a part of American popular folklore. In this book, author Eric T. Chester shows just how dynamic a force the IWW was during its heyday during World War I, and how determined the federal government was to crush this union—a campaign of repression that remains unique in U.S. history. This work utilizes a wide array of archival sources, many of them never used before, thereby giving readers a clearer view and better understanding of what actually happened. The book leads with an examination of the three key events in the history of the IWW: the Wheatfield, CA, confrontation; the Bisbee, AZ, deportation; and the strike of copper miners in Butte, MT. The second part of the book deconstructs the IWW's responses to World War I, the coordinated attack by the federal government upon the union, and how the union unraveled under this attack.

Author : Dean Strang
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-18
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780299323301

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Keep the Wretches in Order by Dean Strang Pdf

Before World War I, the government reaction to labor dissent had been local, ad hoc, and quasi-military. Sheriffs, mayors, or governors would deputize strikebreakers or call out the state militia, usually at the bidding of employers. When the United States entered the conflict in 1917, government and industry feared that strikes would endanger war production; a more coordinated, national strategy would be necessary. To prevent stoppages, the Department of Justice embarked on a sweeping new effort—replacing gunmen with lawyers. The department systematically targeted the nation’s most radical and innovative union, the Industrial Workers of the World, also known as the Wobblies, resulting in the largest mass trial in U.S. history. In the first legal history of this federal trial, Dean Strang shows how the case laid the groundwork for a fundamentally different strategy to stifle radical threats, and had a major role in shaping the modern Justice Department. As the trial unfolded, it became an exercise of raw force, raising serious questions about its legitimacy and revealing the fragility of a criminal justice system under great external pressure.