Wobblies of the world
Subtitle: a global history of the IWW
By: edited by Peter Cole, David Struthers, and Kenyon Zimmer
Series: Wildcat : workers' movements and global capitalism
Publisher: Pluto Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780745399591
Subjects: History; Industrial Workers of the World; International labor activities
Description: "The Industrial Workers of the World is a union unlike any other. Founded in 1905 in Chicago, it rapidly gained members across the world thanks to its revolutionary, internationalist outlook. By using powerful organising methods including direct-action and direct-democracy, it put power in the hands of workers. This philosophy is labeled as ‘revolutionary industrial unionism’ and the members called, affectionately, ‘Wobblies’. This book is the first to look at the history of the IWW from an international perspective. Bringing together a group of leading scholars, it includes lively accounts from a number of diverse countries including Australia, Canada, Mexico, South Africa, Sweden, and Ireland, which reveal a fascinating story of global anarchism, syndicalism and socialism"--Publisher's website.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "A cosmopolitan crowd" : transnational anarchists, the IWW, and the American radical press / Kenyon Zimmer; title: Sabotage, the IWW, and repression : how the American reinterpretation of a French concept gave rise to a new international conception of sabotage / Dominique Pinsolle; title: Living social dynamite : early twentieth-century IWW-South Asia connections / Tariq Khan; title: IWW internationalism and interracial organizing in the southwestern United States / David M. Struthers; title: Spanish anarchists and maritime workers in the IWW / Bieito Alonso; title: The IWW and the dilemmas of labor internationalism / Wayne Thorpe; title: The IWW in Tampico : anarchism, internationalism, and solidarity unionism in a Mexican port / Kevan Antonio Aguilar; title: The Wobblies of the North Woods : Finnish labor radicalism and the IWW in northern Ontario / Saku Pinta; title: "We must do away with racial prejudice and imaginary boundary lines" : British Columbia's Wobblies before the First World War / Mark Leier; title: Wobblies down under : the IWW in Australia / Verity Burgmann; title: Ki Nga Kaimahi Maori ("To all Maori workers") : the New Zealand IWW and the Maori / Mark Derby; title: Patrick Hodgens Hickey and the IWW : a transnational relationship / Peter Clayworth; title: "The cause of the workers who are fighting in Spain is yours" : the Marine transport workers and the Spanish Civil War / Matthew White; title: Edith Frenette : a transnational radical life / Heather Mayer; title: Jim Larkin, James Connolly, and the Dublin Lockout of 1913 : the transnational path of global syndicalism / Marjorie Murphy; title: Tom Barker and revolutionary Europe / Paula de Angelis; title: P. J. Welinder and "American syndicalism" in interwar Sweden / Johan Pries; title: "All workers regardless of craft, race or color" : the first wave of IWW activity and influence in South Africa / Lucien van der Walt; title: Tramp, tramp, tramp : the songs of Joe Hill around the world / Bucky Halker.