Under the Iron Heel : The Wobblies and the Capitalist War on Radical Workers /

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 effecti...

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Autor principal: White, Ahmed (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2022]
Temas:
Labor unions > United States > History > 20th century.
HISTORY / United States / 20th Century.
american.
campaign.
capitalism.
class.
industrial.
labor rights.
legal repression.
local.
militancy.
persecution.
political.
revolution.
russian.
society.
states.
unionize.
united.
vigilantism.
war.
workers.
world.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: Face to Face with Tragedy
  • Chapter 1 Socialism with Its Working Clothes On: Industrial Capitalism, Radical Unionism, and the Roots of Repression
  • Chapter 2 Protecting the Business People: Class, Law, and the Criminalization of Radical Industrial Unionism
  • Chapter 3 In the War of Capital against Labor Someone Must suffer: The War and the IWW
  • Chapter 4 I'll Take neither Mercy nor Pity: Repression and the IWW during the Red Scare
  • Chapter 5 Dealing the Death Blow: Repression and the IWW after the Red Scare
  • Chapter 6 Between the Drowning and the Broken: Punishment, Law, and the Legacies of Repression
  • Conclusion: A Vision We Don't Possess
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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