The Pullman strike, 1894 - Jeremy Brecher Jeremy Brecher's excellent history of the massive but ultimately unsuccessful boycott and strike by the American Railway Union led by Eugene Debs…
US coal miners' strikes, 1894 - Jeremy Brecher Jeremy Brecher's excellent account of the overlapping American miners' strikes in 1894: a national strike and a successful stoppage in Cripple…
Eviction Resistance: The Story of Leonard Spears Learn the story of eviction resister Leonard Spears, and how he decided to stay in his home despite his foreclosure.
The Homestead strike, 1892 - Jeremy Brecher Jeremy Brecher's detailed history of the 1892 strike of workers at the Carnegie Steel Company against the eventually successful attempt of the…
The newspapers of the Young Lords Organization Attached are digital copies of nearly all the newspapers published by the Young Lords Organization in Chicago and Milwaukee between 1969-71…
KKK and IWW wage drawn battle in Greenville, 1924 A 1924 article from the Portland Press Herald about conflict between the Industrial Workers of the World and the the Ku Klux Klan.
Detroit: I do mind dying. A study in urban revolution - Dan Georgakas and Marvin Surkin Detroit: I Do Mind Dying tracks the extraordinary development of the Dodge…
Venture syndicalism: can reviving the strike revive mass unionization? A short article by Nate Hawthorne on the prospects of AFL-CIO unions taking bigger risks to halt the…
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…
Industrial Socialism- Bill Haywood Written by "Big Bill" Haywood and Frank Bohn this pamphlet describes American Capitalism and the role of the Industrial Union in bringing about…
The great upheaval of 1877 - Jeremy Brecher Jeremy Brecher's vivid history of the first mass strike in US history: the great upheaval of 1877 where workers took over the railways and took…
Negroes with guns - Robert F. Williams First published in 1962, Negroes with Guns is the story of a southern black community's struggle to arm itself in self-defense against the Ku…