Screen LibraryWobblies of the world : a global history of the IWW /
"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...
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Pluto Press,
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| Publisher Address: | London : |
| Publication Dates: | 2017. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Wildcat: workers' movements and global capitalism
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| Summary: |
"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 |
| Carrier Form: | viii, 312 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780745399607 0745399606 9780745399591 0745399592 |
| Index Number: | HD8055 |
| CLC: | K14 |
| Call Number: | K14/W837 |
| Contents: |
"A cosmopolitan crowd" : transnational anarchists, the IWW, and the American radical press / Sabotage, the IWW, and repression : how the American reinterpretation of a French concept gave rise to a new international conception of sabotage / Living social dynamite : early twentieth-century IWW-South Asia connections / IWW internationalism and interracial organizing in the southwestern United States / Spanish anarchists and maritime workers in the IWW / The IWW and the dilemmas of labor intern |