num_pages: 312
description: This is the classic history of the Industrial Workers of the World, the influential band of labor militants whose activism mobilized America's poorest and most marginalized workers in the years before World War I.Originally published in 1969, Melvyn Dubofsky's We Shall Be All has remained the definitive archive-based history of the IWW. While much has been written on aspects of the IWW's history in the past three decades, nothing has duplicated or surpassed this authoritative work. The present volume, an abridged version of this labor history classic, makes the compelling story of the IWW accessible to a new generation of readers.In its heyday, between 1905 and 1919, the IWW nourished a dream of a better America where poverty-–material and spiritual–-would be erased and where all people, regardless of nationality or color, would walk free and equal. More than half a century ago the Wobblies tried in their own ways to grapple with issues that still plague the nation in a more sophisticated and properous era. Their example has inspired radicals in America and abroad over the greater part of a century 
language: English
title: We Shall Be All: A History of the Industrial Workers of the World
titlecomplete: We Shall Be All: A History of the Industrial Workers of the World
characters: Vincent Saint John, Ralph Chaplin, Daniel De Leon, Charles Moyer, William Trautmann, Samuel Gompers, Joe Hill, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Joseph James Ettor, Frank H. Little, Bill Haywood, Ben H. Williams
genres: History, United States, Labor, Politics, World History, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 77
series: The Working Class in American History
publisher: University of Illinois Press