Revolutionary industrial unionism : the industrial workers of the world in Australia / Verity Burgmann Burgmann, Verity

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Burgmann, Verity
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Industrial Workers of the World; Labor unions - Australia - History.; Labor unions - Australia - History - 20th century.
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  • 1. 'Flowers to the rebels failed'.
  • 2. 'On the industrial as well as on the political field': the IWW Clubs, 1905-1910.
  • 3. 'Wild men from Yankeeland': the arrival of the Chicago IWW, 1910-1914.
  • 4. 'Education, organisation, emancipation': the revolutionary project.
  • 5. 'We, the hoboes': who were the Wobblies?.
  • 6. 'No barriers of race': the challenge to working-class racism.
  • 7. 'It's great to fight for freedom with a rebel girl': the answer to the woman question.
  • 8. 'A real democracy': organisation and practice.
  • 9. 'A poor day's work for a poor day's pay': ethics and economics.
  • 10. 'Bump me into parliament': the critique of Laborism.
  • 11. 'An injury to one an injury to all': direct industrial action.
  • 12. 'Let those who own Australia do the fighting': opposing the war.
  • 13. 'With the ferocity of a Bengal tiger': the state responds.
  • 14. 'Set the twelve men free': the release campaign.
  • 15. What happened to the Wobblies?
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