Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)

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

Colored workers of America why you should join the IWW

A 1919 pamphlet put out by the Industrial Workers of the World in response to the widespread race rioting of that year.

What will it take to organize fast food?

A short article by db on the possibilities for organizing in the fast food industry.

Reviving an old tradition of educating IWW agitators: Work Peoples College

A reportback of the IWW's Work Peoples College, a week long workshop and training event meant to…

Art of Carlos Cortez

Some images of the art of Carlos Cortez, a long time member of the IWW and anarcho-syndicalist who died in 2005.

Cortez, Carlos, 1923-2005

An obitatury for long-time IWW member and artist Carlos Cortez.

The IWW and the black worker

A piece by historian Philip Foner on the IWW's efforts to organize black workers and its outlook on race in the United States.

Rebel Girls and Union Maids: the woman question in the journals of the AFL and IWW, 1905-1920

An article by Ann Schofield which contrasts the differences and examines the…

End the repression! IWW union supports Chile's students fight for education!

Industrial Workers of the World (European Regional Administration) statement of solidarity with the…

The IWW and political parties - Vincent St. John

Vincent St. John on how the IWW views political parties.

Quakertown blues: Philadelphia's longshoremen and the decline of the IWW

An essay by Peter Cole on the relationship between the IWW and Communism and how the collapse of the…

"Virile syndicalism" in comparative perspective: a gender analysis of the IWW in the United States and Australia

Francis Shor analyses gender and masculinity in the Australian and American IWW of…

Gender and labour/working class history in comparative perspective: the syndicalist and Wobbly experience in the USA, Australia, and New Zealand

An essay incorporating some theoretical insights about gender and labour/working…