Under the Iron Heel
The Wobblies and the Capitalist War on Radical Workers
$38.61
- Paperback
360 pages
- Release Date
3 July 2024
Summary
2022 International Labor History Association Book of the Year
A dramatic, deeply researched account of how legal repression and vigilantism brought down the Wobblies—and how the destruction of their union haunts us to this day.
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 Amer…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780520402287 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0520402286 |
| Author: | Ahmed White |
| Publisher: | University of California Press |
| Imprint: | University of California Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 360 |
| Release Date: | 3 July 2024 |
| Weight: | 499g |
| Dimensions: | 28mm x 152mm x 229mm |
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Critics Review
“A comprehensive account of the campaign waged by the American state to destroy the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW, or ‘Wobblies’) in the decade surrounding the First World War… . Harrowing reading.” * World Socialist Website *
“Under the Iron Heel examines the role that progressive and conservative policymakers played in subduing the union, raising questions about political tolerance for organized labor today.” * Yale Law Report *
“White presents a more richly textured account of the repression of the IWW [Industrial Workers of the World] than has so far been available.” * Journal of Arizona History *
Ahmed White
Ahmed White teaches labor and criminal law at the University of Colorado Boulder and is author of The Last Great Strike: Little Steel, the CIO, and the Struggle for Labor Rights in New Deal America.
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