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
Wobblies!
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 Wobblies! write by Paul Buhle. This book was released on 2005-04-17. Wobblies! available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A vibrant history in graphic art of the Wobblies, published for the centenary of the founding of the Industrial Workers of the World.
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.
Wobblies on the Waterfront
Wobblies on the Waterfront - 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 on the Waterfront write by Peter Cole. This book was released on 2010-10-01. Wobblies on the Waterfront available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Big Red Songbook
Big Red Songbook - 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 Big Red Songbook write by Archie Green. This book was released on 2016-05-01. Big Red Songbook available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
