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A Wobbly Life: IWW Organizer E. F. Doree
Ellen Doree Rosen
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Description for A Wobbly Life: IWW Organizer E. F. Doree
Paperback. Early in the 20th century, the Wobblies, or Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), fought for the rights of workers unprotected by the craft unions. This book helps to set the record straight on the Wobblies during this period of labor history. Num Pages: 256 pages, 31 illustrations. BIC Classification: BGB; KNXB2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 386.
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. From its inception in 1906, the IWW rose to prominence 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 ... Read more
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. From its inception in 1906, the IWW rose to prominence 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Wayne State University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Detroit, MI, United States
ISBN
9780814332030
SKU
V9780814332030
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Ref
99-3
About Ellen Doree Rosen
Ellen Doree Rosen is Professor Emerita of public administration at John Jay College of Criminal Justice of the City University of New York. She is author of Improving Public Sector Productivity: Concepts and Practice (Sage, 1993) and co-author of Current Cases in Public Administration (Harper and Row, 1981).
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