History of the Labor Movement in the United States: Industrial Workers of the World (History of the Labor Movement in the United States)

CONTENTS: Birth of the IWW \* The Moyer, Haywood, Pettibone Case \* The IWW, 1905-1907 \* The IWW 1907-1909 \* Composition and Principles \* Ideology and Tactics \* The Free Speech Fights, 1909-1911 \* The Free Speech Fights, 1912-1914 Organizing the Lumber and Construction Workers \* The Southern Lumber Drive \* Migratory Farm Workers : The Wheatland Affair \* Organizing the 'Home Guard' in Steel \* The Lawrence Strike \* Victory at Lawrence and After \* The Paterson Strike \* Akron and Detroit: Rubber and Auto \* The Socialist Party and the IWW, 1909-1914 The Debate over 'Boring-from-Within' \* The IWW and the Unemployed, 1913-1915 \* 'What's Wrong with the IWW?" \* The Agricultural Workers Organization \* The Mesabi Range Strike \* The Everett Massacre \* On the Eve of America's Entrance Into World War I Traces the history of labor unions and the labor movement from America's colonial era, through the Industrial Revolution, to the present