{"product_id":"rebel-voices-an-iww-anthology-paperback","title":"Rebel Voices: An IWW Anthology - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJoyce L. Kornbluh\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eDaniel Gross\u003c\/b\u003e (Preface by), \u003cb\u003eFranklin Rosemont\u003c\/b\u003e (Notes by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWelcoming women, Blacks, and immigrants long before most other unions, the Wobblies from the start were labor's outstanding pioneers and innovators, unionizing hundreds of thousands of workers previously regarded as \"unorganizable.\" Wobblies organized the first sit-down strike (at General Electric, Schenectady, 1906), the first major auto strike (6,000 Studebaker workers, Detroit, 1911), the first strike to shut down all three coalfields in Colorado (1927), and the first \"no-fare\" transit-workers' job-action (Cleveland, 1944). With their imaginative, colorful, and world-famous strikes and free-speech fights, the IWW wrote many of the brightest pages in the annals of working class emancipation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWobblies also made immense and invaluable contributions to workers' culture. All but a few of America's most popular labor songs are Wobbly songs. IWW cartoons have long been recognized as labor's finest and funniest.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe impact of the IWW has reverberated far beyond the ranks of organized labor. An important influence on the 1960s New Left, the Wobbly theory and practice of direct action, solidarity, and \"class-war\" humor have inspired several generations of civil rights and antiwar activists, and are a major source of ideas and inspiration for today's radicals. Indeed, virtually every movement seeking to \"make this planet a good place to live\" (to quote an old Wobbly slogan), has drawn on the IWW's incomparable experience.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOriginally published in 1964 and long out of print, \u003cem\u003eRebel Voices\u003c\/em\u003e remains by far the biggest and best source on IWW history, fiction, songs, art, and lore. This new edition includes 40 pages of additional material from the 1998 Charles H. Kerr edition from Fred Thompson and Franklin Rosemont, and a new preface by Wobbly organizer Daniel Gross. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoyce L. Kornbluh\u003c\/b\u003e is a community activist and a labor historian, who has retired from the Labor Studies Center, University of Michigan. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eA New Deal for Worker's Education\u003c\/i\u003e and the coauthor of \u003ci\u003eRocking the Boat\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan. \u003cb\u003eFred Thompson\u003c\/b\u003e was a publisher with Charles H. Kerr. \u003cb\u003eFranklin Rosemont\u003c\/b\u003e was a poet, an artist, a historian, a street speaker, the cofounder of the Chicago Surrealist Group, and a publisher at Charles H. Kerr. \u003cstrong\u003eDaniel Gross is an organizer with the Industrial Workers of the World and a cofounder of the first union in the United States at the Starbucks Coffee Co. He is also the founding director of Brandworkers International, a nonprofit organization protecting and advancing the rights of retail and food employees. He lives in New York City. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 472\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.2 x 10 x 7 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 01, 2011\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51770846609696,"sku":"9781604864830","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/ac4a5d74854e227545b54847a717a348.webp?v=1780379371","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/rebel-voices-an-iww-anthology-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}