Red November, Black November: Culture and Community in the Industrial Workers of the World

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SUNY Press, Jan 1, 1989 - Business & Economics - 220 pages
Red November, Black November is a study of the culture of the I. W. W. movement at the turn of the twentieth century. It analyzes the Wobblies' use of cultural expressions such as songs, poems, and cartoons as a means of educating and unifying workers, and as weapons in the struggle against the repressive social conditions of industrial development. The book emphasizes the important role played by immigrant activists, Wobbly artists, and intellectuals, offering a fascinating portrait of the complexity of pre-World War I labor radicalism.

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Contents

The BatteringRam of Industrial Union
1
The Masters Do Not Want the Workers to Organize
11
Historians and the I W W
19
How Little You Look To
23
Viatonta Agiteerausta Innocent Agitation
31
Direct Action Makes Capitalism See Stars
40
The Myth of Frontier Origins
45
Sopimusten Kahleissa Chained by Contracts
49
One Ray of Thy Light O Sun One Stroke of Thy Arm
70
Anarchists at the Founding Convention 69
70
Oikeuden Lopullinen Uhri Final Sacrifice to Justice
84
The I W W and the C G T
93
AnarchoSyndicalist
119
Bibliography
183
Index
213
Copyright

Let Preachers Have Their Heaven Give
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About the author (1989)

Salvatore Salerno is Professor on the Community Faculty staff of Metropolitan State University in St. Paul, Minnesota.

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