Ben Fletcher: portrait of a black syndicalist A biography of black IWW member and organiser Ben Fletcher, written by Jeff Stein. Originally appeared in the Libertarian Labor Review (Summer…
How the IWW is organized - James Kennedy An article by James Kennedy about how the IWW differs from other unions.
Reflections on The lump by Dave Lamb - Dave Walton A couple of decades on after the publication of the controversial Solidarity pamphlet on the lump (a way of casualising construction work),…
Building the infrastructure state: plans, anti-politics and sullen refusal The text of my paper that I presented at Historical Materialism Australasia 2014. I haven’t had much…
Radical border crossers: the Industrial Workers of the World and their press in Latin America - Anton Rosenthal A paper by Anton Rosenthal that looks at the history of the IWW in Latin America.
"Cartooning capitalism": Radical cartooning and the making of American popular radicalism in the early twentieth century A study by Michael Cohen about the role of art and cartoons in various American…
City central councils An short piece about IWW structure that expands on one aspect of an article that appeared in the June 1920 issue of The One Big Union Monthly.
Shop organization in the Metal & Machinery industry An article about how the Metal & Machinery industrial union of the IWW was organized.
Solving the social problem through economic direct action - John Sandgren An article by John Sandgren which outlines his views on IWW organization and is critical of the…
How an industrial union works - Giovanni Baldazzi An article by Giovanni Baldazzi on the day-to-day realities of industrial unionism.