The Industrial Workers of the World and the unemployed In Edmonton and Calgary in the Depression of 1913-1915
Submitted by wojtek on Mar 11 2013 12:55
A paper by David Schultz studying the IWW's efforts to organize the unemployed of Edmonton and Calgary during the economic depression of 1913-15: most were transient, unskilled workers, and many had just arrived from railway construction camps in the interior where the IWW had led massive strikes.
Labour /Le Travail Vol. 25, (Spring, 1990), pp. 47-75.
They didn't suppress the Wobblies - Fred Thompson
Submitted by Juan Conatz on Oct 9 2012 00:47
An article by Fred Thompson contesting the myth that the IWW was smashed by repression during World War I. Originally appeared in Radical America (September-October 1967)
There is a widespread misunderstanding that the government and big business suppressed the IWW during World War I. They tried. They hurt and hampered, but they did not suppress. The record is a practical subject for study by those who find themselves unpopular with those in power today.
Ben Fletcher, IWW organizer
Submitted by Juan Conatz on Sep 8 2012 22:53
An essay on Ben Fletcher's efforts as an IWW organizer.
Originally appeared in Pennsylvania History, Vol. 46, No. 3 (July, 1979)
Justice for the negro: How he can get it
A 1919 pamphlet put out by the Industrial Workers of the World in response to the widespread race rioting of that year.
Colored workers of America why you should join the IWW
A 1919 pamphlet put out by the Industrial Workers of the World in response to the widespread race rioting of that year.
The IWW and the black worker
Submitted by Juan Conatz on Aug 30 2012 05:53
A piece by historian Philip Foner on the IWW's efforts to organize black workers and its outlook on race in the United States.
Originally appeared in The Journal of Negro History, Vol. 55, No. 1. (Jan., 1970)
Rebel Girls and Union Maids: the woman question in the journals of the AFL and IWW, 1905-1920
Submitted by Juan Conatz on Aug 29 2012 06:08
An article by Ann Schofield which contrasts the differences and examines the striking likenesses between the AFL and the IWW approaches to the woman question through their treatment of important women's issues of the day.
Originally appeared in Feminist Studies, Vol. 9, No. 2 (Summer, 1983)
Revolutionary unions and French labor: The rebels behind the cause; or, Why did revolutionary syndicalism fail?
Submitted by Juan Conatz on Aug 29 2012 05:46
Rejecting the conclusions reached by author Peter Stearns that French revolutionary syndicalism never gained worker support and American economists John R. Commons and Selig Perlman that conservative unionism was the only unionism workers would accept, the author provides statistical evidence disproving both. Rather, the author suggests that the failure of the CGT to create cross-class alliances contributed to its isolation and eventually, the decline of revolutionary syndicalism. We do not agree with some of the article, but reproduce for useful information.
Originally appeared in French Historical Studies, Vol. 20, No. 2 (Spring, 1997)
The One Big Union in Washington
Submitted by Juan Conatz on Aug 29 2012 04:26
An article by David Jay Bercuson on the radical Canadian 'One Big Union' and its efforts to organize in Washington state (U.S.).
Originally appeared in The Pacific Northwest Quarterly, Vol. 69, No. 3 (Jul., 1978)
Havana hub: Cuban anarchism, radical media and the Trans-Caribbean anarchist network, 1902-1915
Submitted by Juan Conatz on Aug 28 2012 08:07
An essay on Caribbean anarchists and their newspaper ¡Tierra! .
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