Roots of Rebellion
Roots of Rebellion

Author: Victoria E. Bonnell

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2023-07-28

Total Pages: 594

ISBN-13: 0520322649

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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1983.

Soapbox Rebellion
Soapbox Rebellion

Author: Matthew S. May

Publisher: University of Alabama Press

Published: 2013-10-30

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 0817318062

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Soapbox Rebellion, a new critical history of the free speech fights of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), illustrates how the lively and colorful soapbox culture of the “Wobblies” generated novel forms of class struggle. From 1909 to 1916, thousands of IWW members engaged in dozens of fights for freedom of speech throughout the American West. The volatile spread and circulation of hobo agitation during these fights amounted to nothing less than a soapbox rebellion in which public speech became the principal site of the struggle of the few to exploit the many. While the fights were not always successful, they did produce a novel form of fluid union organization that offers historians, labor activists, and social movement scholars a window into an alternative approach to what it means to belong to a union. Matthew May coins the phrase “Hobo Orator Union” to characterize these collectives. Soapbox Rebellion highlights the methodological obstacles to recovering a workers’ history of public address; closely analyzes the impact of hobo oratorical performances; and discusses the implications of the Wobblies’ free speech fights for understanding grassroots resistance and class struggle today—in an era of the decline of the institutional business union model and workplace contractualism.

Labor's Civil War in California
Labor's Civil War in California

Author: Cal Winslow

Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com

Published: 2010-07

Total Pages: 182

ISBN-13: 1458775410

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A clear analysis of tactics and politics, this thorough account examines the dispute between the United Healthcare Workers (UHW) union in California and its 'parent' organization the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) - one of the most important labor conflicts in the United States today. It explores how the UHW rank and file took umbrage with the SEIUs rejection of traditional labor values of union democracy and class struggle and their tactics of wheeling and dealing with top management and politicians. The resulting rift and retaliation from SEIU leadership culminated in the UHW membership being forced to break out and form a brand new union, the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW). Timed to coincide with elections in California, this detailed history calls for a reexamination of the ideological and structural underpinnings of todays labor movement and illustrates how a seemingly local conflict speaks to the rights of laborers everywhere to control their own fates.

The Paper Rebellion
The Paper Rebellion

Author: Harry Edward Graham

Publisher:

Published: 1970

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13:

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USA. Historical account of dissent by a large group of locals against the two principal trade unions in the pulp and paper industry resulting in eventual breakaway and formation of an independent union in 1964 - covers membership, leadership, management attitudes, political aspects, administrative aspects, etc. Bibliography pp. 159 to 161 and references.

The Heroes of the War for the Union and Their Achievements
The Heroes of the War for the Union and Their Achievements

Author: P Feree

Publisher: Palala Press

Published: 2016-05-24

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781359513427

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