Under the iron heel : the Wobblies and the capitalist war on radical workers
"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 comprehensi...
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| Ort / Verlag / Datum: | Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2022] |
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2022 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Andere Erscheinungsform(en): | Erscheint auch als: Under the iron heel, White, Ahmed, 1970- (Online-Ausgabe)
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| Klassifikation: | 331.8 Gewerkschaften, Sozialpartnerschaft, Arbeiterbewegung
970 Geschichte Nordamerikas 331.880973 |
| Beschreibung: | 349 Seiten; Illustrationen; 23 cm |
| Anmerkungen: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Introduction : face to face with tragedy
- Socialism with its working clothes on : industrial capitalism, radical unionism, and the roots of repression
- Protecting the business people : class, law, and the criminalization of radical industrial unionism
- In the war of capital against labor someone must suffer : the war and the IWW
- I'll take neither mercy nor pity : repression and the IWW during the Red Scare
- Dealing the death blow : repression and the IWW after the Red Scare
- Between the drowning and the broken : Punishment, law, and the legacies of repression
- Conclusion : a vision we don't possess
Wobblies! : a graphic history of the industrial workers of the world