Rebel voices : an I.W.W. anthology / edited, with introductions, by Joyce L. Kornbluh.

This 1968 third printing is dedicated to James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, civil rights workers who were murdered in Philadelphia, Mississippi in 1964.

This book is a compilation of the work of more than 180 writers, songwriters, and cartoonists. Among the most well known are Joe Hill, T-bone Slim, and Ernest Riebe.

Includes selected bibliography (pages [409]-419).

1. One big union: the philosophy of industrial unionism -- 2. With folded arms: the tactics of direct action -- 3. Riding the rails: I.W.W. itinerants -- 4. Soapbox militants: Free speech campaigns 1908-1916 -- 5. Joe Hill: Wobbly bard -- 6. Bread and roses: the 1912 Lawrence textile strike -- 7. Paterson: 1913 -- 8. Organizing the harvest stiffs -- 9. Lumberjacks: north and south -- 10. Down in the mines -- 11. Behind bars: war and prison -- 12. An I.W.W. miscellany: 1924-1964 -- Language of the migratory workers.

"Welcoming 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.

Wobblies 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. The 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.... Rebel Voices remains by far the biggest and best source on IWW history, fiction, songs, art, and lore." -- from https://bookshop.org/books/rebel-voices-an-iww-anthology-9781604864830/9781604864830?aid=23504&listref=labor-history-970d3e92-bff6-4b6b-87d0-c772d7195ede

"Joyce L. Kornbluh is a community activist and a labor historian, who has retired from the Labor Studies Center, University of Michigan. She is the author of A New Deal for Worker's Education and the coauthor of Rocking the Boat. She lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan." -- from https://bookshop.org/books/rebel-voices-an-iww-anthology-9781604864830/9781604864830?aid=23504&listref=labor-history-970d3e92-bff6-4b6b-87d0-c772d7195ede