Wobblies of the World
Title | Wobblies of the World PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Cole |
Publisher | Pluto Press (UK) |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | International labor activities |
ISBN | 9780745399607 |
A history of the global nature of the radical union, The Industrial Workers of the World
Wobblies!
Title | Wobblies! PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Buhle |
Publisher | Verso |
Pages | 326 |
Release | 2005-04-17 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9781844675258 |
A vibrant history in graphic art of the Wobblies, published for the centenary of the founding of the Industrial Workers of the World.
Wobblies on the Waterfront
Title | Wobblies on the Waterfront PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Cole |
Publisher | University of Illinois Press |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 2010-10-01 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0252090853 |
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.
Wobblies of the World
Title | Wobblies of the World PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Cole |
Publisher | Wildcat |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | Industrial Workers Of The World |
ISBN | 9780745399591 |
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.
Big Red Songbook
Title | Big Red Songbook PDF eBook |
Author | Archie Green |
Publisher | PM Press |
Pages | 673 |
Release | 2016-05-01 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1629632600 |
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.
We Shall be All
Title | We Shall be All PDF eBook |
Author | Melvyn Dubofsky |
Publisher | University of Illinois Press |
Pages | 316 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780252069055 |
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.
The Wobblies
Title | The Wobblies PDF eBook |
Author | Patrick Renshaw |
Publisher | |
Pages | 264 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Labor movement |
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