Harvest Wobblies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Harvest Wobblies write by Greg Hall. This book was released on 2001. Harvest Wobblies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Oil, Wheat & Wobblies
Oil, Wheat & Wobblies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Oil, Wheat & Wobblies write by Nigel Anthony Sellars. This book was released on 1998. Oil, Wheat & Wobblies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
We Shall be All
We Shall be All - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook We Shall be All write by Melvyn Dubofsky. This book was released on 2000. We Shall be All available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Wobblies of the World
Wobblies of the World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Wobblies of the World write by Peter Cole. This book was released on 2017. Wobblies of the World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A history of the global nature of the radical union, The Industrial Workers of the World
Red Harvest
Red Harvest - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Red Harvest write by Dashiell Hammett. This book was released on 2010-12-29. Red Harvest available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The steadfast and sturdy Continental Op has been summoned to the town of Personville—known as Poisonville—a dusty mining community splintered by competing factions of gangsters and petty criminals. The Op has been hired by Donald Willsson, publisher of the local newspaper, who gave little indication about the reason for the visit. No sooner does the Op arrive, than the body count begins to climb . . . starting with his client. With this last honest citizen of Poisonville murdered, the Op decides to stay on and force a reckoning—even if that means taking on an entire town. Red Harvest is more than a superb crime novel: it is a classic exploration of corruption and violence in the American grain.
