Big Bill Haywood and the Radical Union Movement
Author : Joseph Robert Conlin
Publisher :
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,23 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Haywood, William Dudley, 1869-1928
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Author : Joseph Robert Conlin
Publisher :
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,23 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Haywood, William Dudley, 1869-1928
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Author : Joseph Robert Conlin
Publisher :
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 25,65 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Business & Economics
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Author : Peter Cole
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 28,85 MB
Release : 2017
Category : International labor activities
ISBN : 9780745399607
A history of the global nature of the radical union, The Industrial Workers of the World
Author : Peter Carlson
Publisher : W. W. Norton
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 23,95 MB
Release : 1984-12-01
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ISBN : 9780393302080
Author : J. Anthony Lukas
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 884 pages
File Size : 20,13 MB
Release : 2012-07-17
Category : History
ISBN : 1439128103
Hailed as "toweringly important" (Baltimore Sun), "a work of scrupulous and significant reportage" (E. L. Doctorow), and "an unforgettable historical drama" (Chicago Sun-Times), Big Trouble brings to life the astonishing case that ultimately engaged President Theodore Roosevelt, Supreme Court justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, and the politics and passions of an entire nation at century's turn. After Idaho's former governor is blown up by a bomb at his garden gate at Christmastime 1905, America's most celebrated detective, Pinkerton James McParland, takes over the investigation. His daringly executed plan to kidnap the radical union leader "Big Bill" Haywood from Colorado to stand trial in Idaho sets the stage for a memorable courtroom confrontation between the flamboyant prosecutor, progressive senator William Borah, and the young defender of the dispossessed, Clarence Darrow. Big Trouble captures the tumultuous first decade of the twentieth century, when capital and labor, particularly in the raw, acquisitive West, were pitted against each other in something close to class war. Lukas paints a vivid portrait of a time and place in which actress Ethel Barrymore, baseball phenom Walter Johnson, and editor William Allen White jostled with railroad magnate E. H. Harriman, socialist Eugene V. Debs, gunslinger Charlie Siringo, and Operative 21, the intrepid Pinkerton agent who infiltrated Darrow's defense team. This is a grand narrative of the United States as it charged, full of hope and trepidation, into the twentieth century.
Author : William Dudley Haywood
Publisher :
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 19,81 MB
Release : 1911
Category : Industrial policy
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Author : Paul Mason
Publisher : Haymarket Books
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 50,89 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1608460703
"This is micro-historical writing at its best."--Walden Bello, author of Dilemmas of Domination "Brilliant."--Ken Loach The stories in this book come to life through the voices of remarkable individuals: child laborers in Dickensian England, visionary women on Parisian barricades, gun-toting railway strikers in America's Wild West, and beer-swilling German metalworkers who tried to stop World War I. It is a story of urban slums, self-help cooperatives, choirs and brass bands, free love, and self-education by candlelight. And, as the author shows, in the developing industrial economies of the world, it is still with us. Live Working or Die Fighting celebrates a common history of defiance, idealism, and self-sacrifice, one as alive and active today as it was two hundred years ago. It is a unique and inspirational book. Paul Mason is an award-winning journalist who reports regularly on labor rights and social justice stories as economics editor for BBC World News America and BBC Newsnight. In addition to Live Working or Die Fighting, which was shortlisted as a 2007 Guardian First Book Award, Mason is the author of Meltdown: The End of the Age of Greed (Verso Books).
Author : Peter Cole
Publisher : PM Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 47,38 MB
Release : 2021-01-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 162963848X
In the early twentieth century, when many US unions disgracefully excluded black and Asian workers, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) warmly welcomed people of color, in keeping with their emphasis on class solidarity and their bold motto: “An Injury to One Is an Injury to All!” Ben Fletcher: The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly tells the story of one of the greatest heroes of the American working class. A brilliant union organizer and a humorous orator, Benjamin Fletcher (1890–1949) was a tremendously important and well-loved African American member of the IWW during its heyday. Fletcher helped found and lead Local 8 of the IWW’s Marine Transport Workers Industrial Union, unquestionably the most powerful interracial union of its era, taking a principled stand against all forms of xenophobia and exclusion. For years, acclaimed historian Peter Cole has carefully researched the life of Ben Fletcher, painstakingly uncovering a stunning range of documents related to this extraordinary man. Ben Fletcher: The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly is the most comprehensive look at Fletcher ever to be published. It includes a detailed biographical sketch of his life and history, reminiscences by fellow workers who knew him, a chronicle of the IWW’s impressive decade-long run on the Philadelphia waterfront in which Fletcher played a pivotal role, and nearly all of his known writings and speeches, thus giving Fletcher’s timeless voice another opportunity to inspire a new generation of workers, organizers, and agitators. This revised and expanded second edition includes new materials such as facsimile reprints of two extremely rare pamphlets on racism from the early twentieth century, more information on his prison years and personal life, additional recollections from friends, greater consideration of Fletcher from a global perspective, and much more.
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Page : 78 pages
File Size : 29,13 MB
Release : 1903
Category : Labor unions
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Author : Randy Shaw
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 37,21 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0520268040
Much has been written about Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers' heyday in the 1960s and '70s, but the story of their profound, ongoing influence on 21st century social justice movements has until now been left untold. This book unearths this legacy.