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Book The I W W  in the Lumber Industry

Download or read book The I W W in the Lumber Industry written by James Rowan and published by . This book was released on 1919* with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book EVERETT MASSACRE

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  • Author : WALKER C. SMITH
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2018
  • ISBN : 9781033917947
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book EVERETT MASSACRE written by WALKER C. SMITH and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Wobblies

Download or read book Wobblies written by Paul Buhle and published by Verso. This book was released on 2005-04-17 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vibrant history in graphic art of the Wobblies, published for the centenary of the founding of the Industrial Workers of the World.

Book The Archaeology of the Logging Industry

Download or read book The Archaeology of the Logging Industry written by John G. Franzen and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2020-08-18 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American lumber industry helped fuel westward expansion and industrial development during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, building logging camps and sawmills—and abandoning them once the trees ran out. In this book, John Franzen surveys archaeological studies of logging sites across the nation, explaining how material evidence found at these locations illustrates key aspects of the American experience during this era. Franzen delves into the technologies used in cutting and processing logs, the environmental impacts of harvesting timber, the daily life of workers and their families, and the social organization of logging communities. He highlights important trends, such as increasing mechanization and standardization, and changes in working and living conditions, especially the food and housing provided by employers. Throughout these studies, which range from Michigan to California, the book provides access to information from unpublished studies not readily available to most researchers. The Archaeology of the Logging Industry also shows that when archaeologists turn their attention to the recent past, the discipline can be relevant to today’s ecological crises. By creating awareness of the environmental deterioration caused by industrial-scale logging during what some are calling the Anthropocene, archaeology supports the hope that with adequate time for recovery and better global-scale stewardship, the human use of forests might become sustainable. A volume in the series the American Experience in Archaeological Perspective, edited by Michael S. Nassaney

Book Empire of Timber

Download or read book Empire of Timber written by Erik Loomis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to center labor unions as actors in American environmental policy.

Book Economic Problems of the Lumber and Timber Products Industry

Download or read book Economic Problems of the Lumber and Timber Products Industry written by Peter Anthony Stone and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The I W W   a Study of American Syndicalism

Download or read book The I W W a Study of American Syndicalism written by Paul Frederick Brissenden and published by Studies in History, Economics, and Public Law. This book was released on 1919 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents an historical and descriptive sketch of the drift from the parliamentary to industrial socialism as depicted in the career history of the Industrial Workers of the World in the United States when it was a mere thirteen years old.

Book Wobblies of the World

Download or read book Wobblies of the World written by Peter Cole and published by Pluto Press (UK). This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the global nature of the radical union, The Industrial Workers of the World

Book Industrial Pioneer

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1921
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 714 pages

Download or read book Industrial Pioneer written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Frank Little and the IWW

Download or read book Frank Little and the IWW written by Jane Little Botkin and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2017-05-25 with total page 535 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Franklin Henry Little (1878–1917), an organizer for the Western Federation of Miners and the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), fought in some of the early twentieth century’s most contentious labor and free-speech struggles. Following his lynching in Butte, Montana, his life and legacy became shrouded in tragedy and family secrets. In Frank Little and the IWW, author Jane Little Botkin chronicles her great-granduncle’s fascinating life and reveals its connections to the history of American labor and the first Red Scare. Beginning with Little’s childhood in Missouri and territorial Oklahoma, Botkin recounts his evolution as a renowned organizer and agitator on behalf of workers in corporate agriculture, oil, logging, and mining. Frank Little traveled the West and Midwest to gather workers beneath the banner of the Wobblies (as IWW members were known), making soapbox speeches on city street corners, organizing strikes, and writing polemics against unfair labor practices. His brother and sister-in-law also joined the fight for labor, but it was Frank who led the charge—and who was regularly threatened, incarcerated, and assaulted for his efforts. In his final battles in Arizona and Montana, Botkin shows, Little and the IWW leadership faced their strongest opponent yet as powerful copper magnates countered union efforts with deep-laid networks of spies and gunmen, an antilabor press, and local vigilantes. For a time, Frank Little’s murder became a rallying cry for the IWW. But after the United States entered the Great War and Congress passed the Sedition Act (1918) to ensure support for the war effort, many politicians and corporations used the act to target labor “radicals,” squelch dissent, and inspire vigilantism. Like other wage-working families smeared with the traitor label, the Little family endured raids, arrests, and indictments in IWW trials. Having scoured the West for firsthand sources in family, library, and museum collections, Botkin melds the personal narrative of an American family with the story of the labor movements that once shook the nation to its core. In doing so, she throws into sharp relief the lingering consequences of political repression.

Book Under the Iron Heel

Download or read book Under the Iron Heel written by Ahmed White and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2024-02-13 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2022 International Labor History Association Book of the Year A dramatic, deeply researched account of how legal repression and vigilantism brought down the Wobblies—and how the destruction of their union haunts us to this day. In 1917, the Industrial Workers of the World was rapidly gaining strength and members. Within a decade, this radical union was effectively destroyed, the victim of the most remarkable campaign of legal repression and vigilantism in American history. Under the Iron Heel is the first comprehensive account of this campaign. Founded in 1905, the IWW offered to the millions of workers aggrieved by industrial capitalism the promise of a better world. But its growth, coinciding with World War I and the Russian Revolution and driven by uncompromising militancy, was seen by powerful capitalists and government officials as an existential threat that had to be eliminated. In Under the Iron Heel, Ahmed White documents the torrent of legal persecution and extralegal, sometimes lethal violence that shattered the IWW. In so doing, he reveals the remarkable courage of those who faced this campaign, lays bare the origins of the profoundly unequal and conflicted nation we know today, and uncovers disturbing truths about the law, political repression, and the limits of free speech and association in class society.

Book Rebels of the Woods

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  • Author : Robert L. Tyler
  • Publisher : Eugene, Or : University of Oregon Books
  • Release : 1967
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 248 pages

Download or read book Rebels of the Woods written by Robert L. Tyler and published by Eugene, Or : University of Oregon Books. This book was released on 1967 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic history traces the rise and fall of the Industrial Workers of the World -- the Wobblies -- in the region, from their 1907 strike in the Portland lumber mills and the Centralia tragedy of 1919 to the closing of Seattle's I.W.W. hall in 1965.

Book Darkest Before Dawn

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  • Author : Clemens P. Work
  • Publisher : UNM Press
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN : 9780826337931
  • Pages : 332 pages

Download or read book Darkest Before Dawn written by Clemens P. Work and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today's threats against freedom of speech echo the hysteria of World War I, when Americans went to prison for dissent. This cautionary tale focuses on events in Montana and the West that led to the suspension of this crucial right.

Book The International Socialist Review

Download or read book The International Socialist Review written by Algie Martin Simons and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Radical Seattle

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  • Author : Cal Winslow
  • Publisher : NYU Press
  • Release : 2020-02-25
  • ISBN : 1583678557
  • Pages : 236 pages

Download or read book Radical Seattle written by Cal Winslow and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a grey winter morning in Seattle, in February 1919, 110 local unions shut down the entire city. Shut it down and took it over, rendering the authorities helpless. For five days, workers from all trades and sectors – streetcar drivers, telephone operators, musicians, miners, loggers, shipyard workers – fed the people, ensured that babies had milk, that the sick were cared for. They did this with without police – and they kept the peace themselves. This had never happened before in the United States and has not happened since. Those five days became known as the General Strike of Seattle. Chances are you’ve never heard of it. In Radical Seattle, Cal Winslow explains why. Winslow describes how Seattle’s General Strike was actually the high point in a long process of early twentieth century socialist and working-class organization, when everyday people built a viable political infrastructure that seemed, to governments and corporate bosses, radical – even “Bolshevik.” Drawing from original research, Winslow depicts a process that, in struggle, fused the celebrated itinerants of the West with the workers of a modern industrial city. But this book is not only an account of the heady days of February 1919; it is also about the making of a class capable of launching one of America’s most gripping strikes – what E.P. Thompson once referred to as "the long tenacious revolutionary tradition of the common people." Reading this book might increase the chance that something like this could happen again – possibly in the place where you live.

Book The Messenger

Download or read book The Messenger written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: