A Wobbly Life: IWW Organizer E. F. Doree Contributor(s): Rosen, Ellen Doree (Author), Dubofsky, Melvyn (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 081433203X ISBN-13: 9780814332030 Publisher: Wayne State University Press OUR PRICE: $23.74 Product Type: Paperback Published: July 2004 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Business - Political Science | Labor & Industrial Relations |
Dewey: B |
LCCN: 2004000533 |
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (0.85 lbs) 288 pages |
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Publisher Description: Early in the twentieth century, the Wobblies, or Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), fought for the rights of workers--common laborers, migrants, immigrants, black workers--unprotected by the craft unions. In the face of beatings, kidnappings, and lynchings by vigilantes, company detectives, and hired guns, the Wobblies organized in mining and lumber camps, the wheat fields, on docksides and in textile factories. A meteoric career from its beginnings in 1906, the IWW arose with free speech fights, peaked with a membership of over 100,000 workers in 1917, and was devastated in 1918 by the imprisonment of its leadership for violations of wartime legislation. A Wobbly Life helps to set the record straight on the Wobblies during this period of labor history. |