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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Industrial Workers of the World"”.
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Hobo orator union: the free speech fights of the Industrial Workers of the World, 1909-1916.
From 1909 to 1916 thousands of hobos joined the Industrial Workers of the World and participated in major fights for free speech in several dozen cities in the American west. During this period, the union organized over two dozen confrontations with municipal authorities to challenge repressive …
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The Relationship Between the Industrial Workers of the World and the Communist Party Shortly After World War I
Recognized as one of the most revolutionary labor unions in America during the early twentieth-century by the general public and the federal government, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) separated themselves from the rest of the labor unions because of their success in executing general …
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The federal government and the Industrial Workers of the World, 1917-1918: An attempt to crush a labor union
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Fanning the Flames of Discontent: The Free Speech Fight of the Kansas City Industrial Workers of the World and the Making of Midwestern Radicalism
This project deals with the free speech fight of 1911 that occurred in Kansas City and was organized and led by the Industrial Workers of the World. The free speech fight serves as a case study in localized Midwestern radicalism, specifically its unique manifestation in Kansas City. While many …
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Taking a Deep Breadth: The Rhetorical Construction of Solidarity in the American Labor Movement
<p>This dissertation explores the rhetorical fragments in three case studies of the American Labor Movement constituting movement members in solidarity. Using Kenneth Burke's discussion of rhetorical substance, this project explores the possibilities for developing deep and broad forms of …
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Indispensable Outcasts: Seasonal Laborers and Community in the Upper Midwest, 1880--1930
"The upper midwestern United States is the geographic focus, especially Wisconsin, Minnesota, the Dakotas, northern Illinois, northern Michigan, and northwestern Iowa. The structure of agricultural production, especially in the wheat belt, and the structure of the labor market for unskilled …
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Hobohemia on the plains: labor, leisure, and industrial discipline in Kansas City, 1873-1915
On the morning of June 9, 1925, a crowd of curious onlookers assembled near the intersection of Second Street and Grand Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri’s North End district to watch the washing away of a sleep bluff overlooking the Missouri River. For fifty years, the promontory colloquially known …
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The Rathole Archipelago : industrial pioneers in a hammershop of hell, reflections of the I.W.W. in fiction.
The purpose of this study is to examine the influence of an early twentieth-century labor union in the United States, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), on the lives of two fictional heroes: Janet Bumpus in Winston Churchill's The Dwelling Place of Light (1917) and Waclaw Krasinski in W. E. …