num_pages: 240
description: Rebels of the Woods is a chilling document concerning laborers struggling to improve their working conditions. It recounts the history of the I.W.W. in the Pacific Northwest early in the 20th century. Told with careful attention to fact, this history neither condemns nor glorifies the "Wobbly." The errors, the stubbornness, the inflexibility of both sides in the conflict are recognized. A clear social history emerges, indirectly warning that it could all happen again. With terrifying ease, the thin veneer of civilization sloughed off respectable citizens when special interests were thought to be threatened by the Wobblies. Rebels of the Woods is an absorbing book, dramatic at times, even poetic, but always honest.
language: English
title: Rebels of the Woods: The I.W.W. in the Pacific Northwest
publisher: Oregon State Univ Pr