Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)

Content by or about the revolutionary union Industrial Workers of the World (IWW).

Statement from autonomous union-busting firm in the Twin Cities

A public statement on a labour conflict by a group of anarchists and radicals in Minneapolis. The…

The Industrial Workers of the World and the unemployed In Edmonton and Calgary in the Depression of 1913-1915

A paper by David Schultz studying the IWW's efforts to organize the unemployed of…

IWW non-profit workers in Minneapolis go on strike after negotiations fail

Information on a just begun strike at a non-profit mobile food shelf and soup kitchen in Minneapolis…

Consuming lattes and labour, or working at Starbucks - Bryant Simon

An in depth portrait of what it is like to work at one of the most conspicuous components of the…

Cartoon published in the 'Industrial Worker' and the 'Messenger,' August 1923.

“The Ku Klux Government”: Vigilantism, lynching, and the repression of the IWW

Michael Cohen's journal article on the extra-parliamentary repression of the IWW that ran parallel…

IWW fist

Philadelphia's lords of the docks: interracial unionism wobbly style - Peter Cole

A short paper written by Peter Cole for the Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (July 2007…

Planks for a platform and a few words about organizing - Staughton Lynd

An article by Staughton Lynd on specific practices and contract clauses that he thinks Wobblies should support.

Louise Olivereau

Olivereau, Louise (1883- 1963)

A short biography of anarchist and war resister Louise Olivereau

Life of Albert R. Parsons, with brief history of the labor movement in America.

A biography of anarchist, labor activist, newspaper editor, and Haymarket martyr - Albert Parsons…

Requiem for a campaign

An organizer's overview of an ended Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) campaign in the Twin Cities.

Remembering FW Adam Briesemeister

An obituary of Twin Cities IWW member and anarchist organizer, Adam Briesemeister.

Towards a Wobbly methodology: establishing yourself as an organizer in a new workplace

This essay is the second in a series articulating a methodological framework for developing Wobbly…