Image Review: Local 8 shows interracial unionism key to victory A review by Matt White of Peter Cole's book, Wobblies on the Waterfront: Interracial Unionism in…
Image Ben Fletcher, Local 8, and Me - Peter Cole An article by author Peter Cole about his fascination with the historical IWW's storied 'Local 8'.
Image Review: Ben Fletcher of Local 8 Docks A review by Jon Bekken of Ben Fletcher: The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly, a book edited by Peter Cole.
Image 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…
Image 100 Years Ago: The Philadelphia dockers strike and Local 8 of the IWW - Mouvement Communiste and Kolektivně proti Kapitălu A text published to celebrate the hundredth anniversary of an important strike…
Image A 100-year-old idea that could transform the labor movement An article by Daniel Gross suggesting that the old Local 8 of the IWW has lessons to teach the labor…
Image 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…
Image 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…
Image War on the waterfront - Peter Cole Chapter 4 of "Wobblies on the waterfront-interracial unionism in progressive-era Philadelphia" by Peter Cole, an excellent text about the…
Image Fletcher, Ben, 1890-1949 A short sketch of life on the Philadelphia ports of black IWW member and dock worker, Ben Fletcher.
