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…
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'.
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Fletcher, Ben, 1890-1949 A short sketch of life on the Philadelphia ports of black IWW member and dock worker, Ben Fletcher.
