Wobblies of the world : a global history of the IWW / edited by Peter Cole, David Struthers, and Kenyon Zimmer.

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"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...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Wildcat (Pluto Press)
Other Authors: Cole, Peter, 1969- (Editor)
Struthers, David M. (Editor)
Zimmer, Kenyon, 1980- (Editor)
Language:English
Published: London : Pluto Press, 2017.
Series:Wildcat (Pluto Press)
Subjects:
Industrial Workers of the World > History.
Industrial Workers of the World.
International labor activities.
International labor activities > History.
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:viii, 312 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • "A cosmopolitan crowd" : transnational anarchists, the IWW, and the American radical press / Kenyon Zimmer
  • Sabotage, the IWW, and repression : how the American reinterpretation of a French concept gave rise to a new international conception of sabotage / Dominique Pinsolle
  • Living social dynamite : early twentieth-century IWW-South Asia connections / Tariq Khan
  • IWW internationalism and interracial organizing in the southwestern United States / David M. Struthers
  • Spanish anarchists and maritime workers in the IWW / Bieito Alonso
  • The IWW and the dilemmas of labor internationalism / Wayne Thorpe
  • The IWW in Tampico : anarchism, internationalism, and solidarity unionism in a Mexican port / Kevan Antonio Aguilar
  • The Wobblies of the North Woods : Finnish labor radicalism and the IWW in northern Ontario / Saku Pinta
  • "We must do away with racial prejudice and imaginary boundary lines" : British Columbia's Wobblies before the First World War / Mark Leier
  • Wobblies down under : the IWW in Australia / Verity Burgmann
  • Ki Nga Kaimahi Maori ("To all Maori workers") : the New Zealand IWW and the Maori / Mark Derby
  • Patrick Hodgens Hickey and the IWW : a transnational relationship / Peter Clayworth
  • "The cause of the workers who are fighting in Spain is yours" : the Marine transport workers and the Spanish Civil War / Matthew White
  • Edith Frenette : a transnational radical life / Heather Mayer
  • Jim Larkin, James Connolly, and the Dublin Lockout of 1913 : the transnational path of global syndicalism / Marjorie Murphy
  • Tom Barker and revolutionary Europe / Paula de Angelis
  • P. J. Welinder and "American syndicalism" in interwar Sweden / Johan Pries
  • "All workers regardless of craft, race or color" : the first wave of IWW activity and influence in South Africa / Lucien van der Walt
  • Tramp, tramp, tramp : the songs of Joe Hill around the world / Bucky Halker.