Roughneck
Author : Peter Carlson
Publisher : W. W. Norton
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,29 MB
Release : 1984-12-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780393302080
Big Trouble
Author : J. Anthony Lukas
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 884 pages
File Size : 43,51 MB
Release : 2012-07-17
Category : History
ISBN : 1439128103
Book Description
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.
Writings of Big Bill Haywood
Author : William Haywood
Publisher :
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 47,74 MB
Release : 2011-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781610010108
Book Description
William D "Big Bill" Haywood was one of the most colorful figures in American labor history. While working in an Idaho silver mine as a young man, he joined the Western Federation of Miners, and quickly became a member of its Executive Board and then its Secretary-Treasurer. Haywood preached a militant brand of unionism which advocated the overthrow of capitalism by a mass general strike and the use of sabotage. In 1905, a former Governor of Idaho was killed by a bomb; Haywood and two other WFM leaders were tried and acquitted of planning the murder. In 1905, Haywood was a founding member of the revolutionary labor union Industrial Workers of the World (IWW--the "Wobblies") and soon became its Secretary-Treasurer and best-known member. In 1917, 165 IWW members, including Haywood, were arrested and charged with violating the Sedition and Espionage Acts by opposing the First World War. Sentenced to 20 years in jail, Haywood skipped bail and fled the country in 1921.
Wobblies of the World
Author : Peter Cole
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 23,98 MB
Release : 2017
Category : International labor activities
ISBN : 9780745399607
Book Description
A history of the global nature of the radical union, The Industrial Workers of the World
Big Bill Haywood's Book
Author : William D. Haywood
Publisher :
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 12,63 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780717808106
Book Description
This is William D. Haywood's own story, written during the last year of his life. A heroic giant of the American labor movement during its most turbulent years, "Big Bill" was a Socialist and a founder and leader of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). Born in Salt Lake City, he went into the Nevada metal mines at the age of 15 and joined the Western Federation of Miners in 1896 at 27. At 31, he was Secretary-Treasurer of the WFM and led its epic struggles against the mining trusts. He became the storm center of many other great labor struggles on the eve of the first World War, including the strikes of textile workers in Lawrence, Mass. and in Paterson, N.J. He also led the militant Wobbly "Free Speech" fights, and was prosecuted for opposing U.S. entry into World War I. His story, a swift moving narrative as absorbing as a novel, should be known to the present generation.
Live Working Or Die Fighting
Author : Paul Mason
Publisher : Haymarket Books
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 31,67 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1608460703
Book Description
"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).
Augusta Locke
Author : William Haywood Henderson
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 44,43 MB
Release : 2007-03-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1440621721
Book Description
An indelible portrait of a woman who through great toughness of character blazes her own trail Novelist William Haywod Henderson has won acclaim for his depictions of land and nature and his ability to bring the American West to vivid life. Of his most recent novel, The Rest of the Earth, Annie Proulx remarked that Henderson “writes some of the most evocative and transcendently beautiful prose in contemporary American literature.” Redolent with myth, humor, strange landscapes, and stark reality, Henderson’s new novel tells the story of Augusta Locke, a troubled yet spirited woman, as she raises her daughter in the deserts of Wyoming. Spanning the twentieth century, Augusta’s extraordinary challenges play out themes of love and loss, home and family, redemption and reconciliation.
Labor Leaders in America
Author : Melvyn Dubofsky
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 21,83 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780252013430
Book Description
Here are the life stories of the men and women who have led the labor movement in America from Reconstruction to recent times, from William H. Sylvis, the first major labor leader, to Cesar Chavez, who organized California's farm workers in the 1960s. All of the chapters have been written expressly for this volume by leading authorities, several of whom are authors of booklength biographies of their subjects. Taken together these readable yet authoritative life studies provide a broad overview of the American labor movement that will appeal to the student and lay reader as well as to the specialist in social history and labor and industrial relations.
The Rest of the Earth
Author : William Haywood Henderson
Publisher : Plume
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 18,67 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Book Description
William Haywood Henderson's first novel, Native, received lavish praise for its evocative prose and breathtaking descriptions of the stark Western landscape. Now, Henderson returns to the Wind River Valley in Wyoming to tell the story of one man's odyssey into this forbidding land.In the years following the Civil War, Walker Avary sails from Boston to San Francisco, then heads into the remote West, following the sketchy maps of the few who have gone before him. As he travels, he experiences several fleeting relationships before settling in a remote valley with a native young woman whose tribe was destroyed through its previous encounters with white men. Together through the deep winter, the texture of their lives is recounted in prose so sensuous that the sights, scents, even the wildlife and natural elements they encounter are made startling vivid.Both a precisely rendered depiction of time and place and a nearly mythic tale of survival in the wilderness, The Rest of the Earth examines the intersection of individual destiny, the legacy of personal history and the powerful forces of nature, which run like deep swift currents through this beautifully written work.-- "The Rest of the Earth" can be compared to the novels of Cormac McCarthy, Ivan Doig, and Wallace Stegner, with their western locales, lyrical writings, and brooding landscapes.
The Spencer Haywood Rule
Author : Marc J. Spears
Publisher : Triumph Books
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 38,27 MB
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1641253851
Book Description
"If you are a basketball fan, you should be aware of Spencer Haywood's immense historical importance. If you're not aware, you should be." —Bob Ryan, The Boston Globe Hall of Famer, Olympic gold medalist, MVP, and All-Star could all be used to describe the illustrious career of Spencer Haywood on the hardwood. From picking cotton in rural Mississippi to the historic 1968 Olympics to Winning ABA MVP to the battle with the NBA that would go all the way to the Supreme Court and change the league forever, Spencer Haywood's life has been a microcosm of 20th-century sports and culture. One of the most dominant big men of his era, Haywood burst onto the international scene as a teenager with a revelatory performance at the Mexico City Olympics. Yet, while his basketball career was just beginning back in that summer of '68, it was only one of many notable moments in the extraordinary and fateful life of the big man from Silver City, Mississippi. In The Spencer Haywood Rule, Marc J. Spears of ESPN's The Undefeated and Gary Washburn of The Boston Globe worked with Spencer to tell the remarkable story of a man who was born into indentured servitude in rural Mississippi, and all of the unbelievable trials, tribulations, successes, failures, and redemptions that followed. Haywood would go on to be the ABA Rookie of the Year and MVP in the same season, but his triumphs on the court are only part of the?legend. His winding journey off the court saw him challenge the NBA's draft-entry rules and win at the Supreme Court level; run in New York City high-fashion circles in the mid-70s with his then-wife, supermodel Iman; and bottom out with alcohol and drug addiction during the infancy of the Showtime Lakers dynasty.? Spears and Washburn explore how Haywood's impact was felt throughout the NBA and in society at large—and still is to this day—culminating in Haywood's inspiring second act as an advocate for current and retired NBA players alike.
