Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I: Transnational Influences on the IWW
1. 'A Cosmopolitan Crowd': Transnational Anarchists, the IWW and
the American Radical Press - Kenyon Zimmer
2. Sabotage, the IWW and Repression: How the American
Reinterpretation of a French Concept Gave Rise to a New
International Conception of Sabotage - Dominique Pinsolle
3. Living Social Dynamite: Early Twentieth-Century IWW-South Asia
Connections - Tariq Khan
4. IWW Internationalism and Interracial Organizing in the
Southwestern United States - David M. Struthers
5. Spanish Anarchists and Maritime Workers in the IWW - Bieito
Alonso
Part II: The IWW in the Wider World
6. The IWW and the Dilemmas of Labor Internationalism - Wayne
Thorpe
7. The IWW in Tampico: Anarchism, Internationalism and Solidarity
Unionism in a Mexican Port - Kevan Antonio Aguilar
8. The Wobblies of the North Woods: Finnish Labor Radicalism and
the IWW in Northern Ontario - Saku Pinta
9. 'We Must Do Away with Racial Prejudice and Imaginary Boundary
Lines': British Columbia’s Wobblies before the First World War -
Mark Leier
10. Wobblies Down Under: The IWW in Australia - Verity Burgmann
11. Ki Nga Kaimahi Maori ('To All Maori Workers'): The New Zealand
IWW and the Maori - Mark Derby
12. Patrick Hodgens Hickey and the IWW: A Transnational
Relationship - Peter Clayworth
13. 'The Cause of the Workers Who Are Fighting in Spain is Yours':
The Marine Transport Workers and the Spanish Civil War - Matthew
White
14. Edith Frenette: A Transnational Radical Life - Heather
Mayer
Part III: Beyond the Union: The IWW’s Influence and Legacies
15. Jim Larkin, James Connolly and the Dublin Lockout of 1913: The
Transnational Path of Global Syndicalism - Marjorie Murphy
16. Tom Barker and Revolutionary Europe - Paula de Angelis
17. P. J. Welinder and 'American Syndicalism' in Interwar Sweden -
Johan Pries
18. 'All Workers Regardless Of Craft, Race Or Color': The First
Wave of IWW Activity and Influence in South Africa - Lucien van der
Walt
19. Tramp, Tramp, Tramp: The Songs of Joe Hill Around the World -
Bucky Halker
Notes on Contributors
Index
Peter Cole is Professor of History at Western Illinois University
and Research Associate at the Society, Work and Development
Institute, University of the Witwatersrand. He is the author of
Wobblies on the Waterfront (University of Illinois Press, 2007) and
editor of Wobblies of the World (Pluto, 2017).
David M. Struthers is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the
University of Copenhagen. He is the editor of Wobblies of the World
(Pluto, 2017).
Kenyon Zimmer is Associate Professor of History at the University
of Texas at Arlington. He is the author of Immigrants Against the
State (University of Illinois Press, 2015) and the editor of
Wobblies of the World (Pluto, 2017).
'Finally! A book about the IWW that takes seriously their global
self-description. This book is a landmark and a sea beacon in the
history of the planetary proletariat'
*Marcus Rediker, author of Slave Ship: A Human History (John
Murray, 2008)*
'A splendid project and a vitally important contribution to the
understanding of labor as a social movement.'
*Paul Buhle, author of Wobblies!: A Graphic History of the
Industrial Workers of the World (2005)*
'As a second-generation member of the IWW, I am delighted to see
this outstanding collection of essays on the Wobblies, their
achievements, and their substantial impact despite severe
repression'
*Noam Chomsky*
'[A] valuable collection'
*Against the Current*
'Fantastic'
*Labor Notes*
'Recommended'
*CHOICE*
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