The I. W. W.: A Study of American Syndicalism
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Chapters (598)
- THE I. W. W. A Study of American Syndicalism
- PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
- PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION
- FOOTNOTES:
- CONTENTS
- PART I BEGINNINGS
- CHAPTER I Forerunners of the I. W. W.
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER II The Birth of the Organization[78] (1905)
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER III The I. W. W. versus the A. F. of L.
- FOOTNOTES:
- PART II THE "ORIGINAL" I. W. W.
- CHAPTER IV Maiden Efforts on the Economic Field
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER V The Coup of the "Proletarian Rabble" (1906)
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER VI The Structure of a Militant Union
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER VII The Fight for Existence
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER VIII "Job Control" at Goldfield
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER IX Doctrinaire versus Direct-Actionist (1908)
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER X The I. W. W. on the "Civilized Plane" (1908-1915)
- FOOTNOTES:
- PART III THE DIRECT-ACTIONISTS
- CHAPTER XI Free Speech and Sabotage
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER XII Lawrence and the Crest of Power (1912)
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER XIII Dual Unionism and Decentralization
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER XIV Recent Tendencies
- FOOTNOTES:
- APPENDIX I First I. W. W. Classification of the Industrial Population[723] ("FATHER HAGGERTY'S WHEEL OF FORTUNE")]
- FOOTNOTES:
- APPENDIX II The I. W. W. Preamble[724]
- A. CHICAGO
- B. DETROIT[725]
- FOOTNOTES:
- APPENDIX III Structural Organization of the I. W. W.[726] (1917)
- FOOTNOTES:
- APPENDIX IV. Membership Statistics.
- TABLE A.—Membership Figures—Detroit and Chicago Factions
- NOTES TO TABLE A.
- TABLE B.—Comparative Membership Figures, 1910[727]
- TABLE C.—Membership of Certain Unions and Groups of Unions in the United States, 1897-1914[732] (00's omitted.)
- TABLE D.—Membership of the I. W. W. (Chicago and Detroit) and of all Labor Organizations in the U. S., 1905-1917[734]
- FOOTNOTES:
- APPENDIX V. Local Unions of the I. W. W.—Chicago and Detroit, 1914[740]
- FOOTNOTES:
- APPENDIX VI Reasons for Locals Disbanding[741] (Aug. 31, 1910 to Sept. 1, 1911)
- FOOTNOTES:
- APPENDIX VII Free Speech Fights of the I. W. W. (Partial list.)
- APPENDIX VIII Partial List of Strikes Managed or Participated in by the I. W. W.
- APPENDIX IX Selections from the I. W. W. Song Book[742]
- Are You a Wobbly?
- Dump the Bosses Off Your Back
- Hallelujah! I'm a Bum![743]
- Mr. Block
- Tie 'Em Up!
- A. F. of L. Sympathy
- The Message from O'er the Sea
- Scissor Bill
- Paint 'Er Red
- Casey Jones—the Union Scab
- The Preacher and the Slave
- The Red Flag
- What We Want
- FOOTNOTES:
- APPENDIX X Copies of State "Criminal Syndicalism" Statutes
- MINNESOTA
- IDAHO
- MONTANA
- FOOTNOTES:
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- 1. Official Documents of the Industrial Workers of the World
- 2. Propaganda Leaflets and Miscellaneous Official Publications
- (a) CHICAGO I. W. W. LEAFLETS
- (b) DETROIT I. W. W. LEAFLETS
- (c) MISCELLANEOUS SEMI-OFFICIAL PUBLICATIONS OF THE I. W. W.
- (d) CERTAIN OFFICIAL PUBLICATIONS OF OTHER LABOR ORGANIZATIONS
- 3. Official and Semi-official Periodical Publications of the I. W. W.
- 4. Other Syndicalist and Revolutionary Labor Periodicals
- 5. Partial List of Books and Articles on the I. W. W.
- (a) BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS
- (b) MAGAZINE ARTICLES
- INDEX
- Studies in History, Economics and Public Law
- VOLUME I, 1891-92. 2nd Ed., 1897. 396 pp. Price, cloth, $3.50.
- VOLUME II, 1892-93. (See note on last page.)
- VOLUME III, 1893. 465 pp. (See note on last page.)
- VOLUME IV, 1893-94. 438 pp. (See note on last page.)
- VOLUME V, 1895-96. 498 pp. Price, cloth, $3.50.
- VOLUME VI, 1896. 601 pp. Price, cloth, $4.50; Paper covers, $4.00.
- VOLUME VII, 1896. 512 pp. Price, cloth, $3.50.
- VOLUME VIII, 1896-98. 551 pp. Price, cloth, $4.00.
- VOLUME IX, 1897-98. 617 pp. Price, cloth, $4.00.
- VOLUME X, 1898-99. 409 pp. Price, cloth, $3.50.
- VOLUME XI, 1899. 495 pp. Price, cloth, $4.00; paper covers, $3.50.
- VOLUME XII, 1899-1900. 586 pp. Price, cloth, $4.00.
- VOLUME XIII, 1901. 570 pp. Price, cloth, $4.00.
- VOLUME XIV, 1901-1902. 576 pp. Price, cloth, $4.00.
- VOLUME XV, 1902. 427 pp. Price, cloth, $3.50; Paper covers, $3.00.
- VOLUME XVI, 1902-1903. 547 pp. Price, cloth, $4.00.
- VOLUME XVII, 1903. 635 pp. Price, cloth, $4.00.
- VOLUME XVIII, 1903. 753 pp. Price, cloth, $4.50.
- VOLUME XIX, 1903-1905. 588 pp. Price, cloth, $4.00.
- VOLUME XX, 1904. 514 pp. Price, cloth, $3.50.
- VOLUME XXI, 1904. 746 pp. Price, cloth, $4.50.
- VOLUME XXII, 1905. 520 pp. Price, cloth, $3.50; paper covers, $3.00.
- VOLUME XXIII, 1905. 594 pp. Price, cloth, $4.00.
- VOLUME XXIV, 1905. 521 pp. Price, cloth, $4.00.
- VOLUME XXV, 1906-07. 600 pp. (Sold only in Sets.)
- VOLUME XXVI, 1907. 559 pp. Price, cloth, $4.00.
- VOLUME XXVII, 1907. 578 pp. Price, cloth, $4.00.
- VOLUME XXVIII, 1907. 564 pp. Price, cloth, $4.00.
- VOLUME XXIX, 1908. 703 pp. Price, cloth, $4.50.
- VOLUME XXX, 1908. 712 pp. Price, cloth, $4.50; Paper covers, $4.00.
- VOLUME XXXI, 1908. 575 pp. Price, cloth, $4.00.
- VOLUME XXXII, 1908. 705 pp. Price, cloth, $4.50; paper covers, $4.00.
- VOLUME XXXIII, 1908-1909. 635 pp. Price, cloth, $4.50.
- VOLUME XXXIV, 1909. 628 pp. Price, cloth, $4.50.
- VOLUME XXXV, 1909. 568 pp. Price, cloth, $4.50.
- VOLUME XXXVI, 1910. 542 pp. Price, cloth, $4.00.
- VOLUME XXXVII, 1910. 606 pp. Price, cloth, $4.50.
- VOLUME XXXVIII, 1910. 463 pp. Price, cloth, $3.50.
- VOLUME XXXIX, 1910-1911. 651 pp. Price, cloth, $4.50.
- VOLUME XL, 1911. 633 pp. Price, cloth, $4.50.
- VOLUME XLI, 1911. 514 pp. Price, cloth, $3.50; paper covers, $3.00.
- VOLUME XLII, 1911. 400 pp. Price, cloth, $3.00; paper covers, $2.50.
- VOLUME XLIII, 1911. 633 pp. Price, cloth, $4.50.
- VOLUMES XLIV and XLV, 1911. 745 pp.
- VOLUME XLVI, 1911-1912. 623 pp. Price, cloth, $4.50.
- VOLUME XLVII, 1912. 544 pp. Price, cloth, $4.00.
- VOLUME XLVIII, 1912. 493 pp. Price, cloth, $4.00.
- VOLUME XLIX, 1912. 592 pp. Price, cloth, $4.50.
- VOLUME L, 1911. 481 pp. Price, cloth, $4.00.
- VOLUME LI, 1912. 4to. Atlas. Price: cloth, $1.50; paper covers, $1.00.
- VOLUME LII, 1912. 489 pp. Price, cloth, $4.00.
- VOLUME LIII, 1913. 789 pp. Price, cloth, $4.50; paper, $4.00.
- VOLUME LIV, 1913. 604 pp. Price, cloth, $4.50.
- VOLUME LV, 1913. 665 pp. Price, cloth, $4.50.
- VOLUME LVI, 1913, 406 pp. Price, cloth, $3.50.
- VOLUME LVII, 1914. 670 pp. Price, cloth, $4.50.
- VOLUME LVIII, 1914. 684 pp. Price, cloth, $4.50; paper, $4.00.
- VOLUME LIX, 1914. 625 pp. Price, cloth, $4.50.
- VOLUME LX. 1914. 516 pp. Price, cloth, $4.00.
- VOLUME LXI. 1914. 496 pp. Price, cloth, $4.00.
- VOLUME LXII. 1914. 414 pp. Price, cloth, $3.50.
- VOLUME LXIII. 1914. 561 pp. Price, cloth, $4.00.
- VOLUME LXIV. 1915. 646 pp. Price, cloth, $4.50.
- VOLUME LXV. 1915. 524 pp. Price, cloth, $4.00.
- VOLUME LXVI. 1915. 655 pp. Price, cloth, $4.50.
- VOLUME LXVII. 1916. 538 pp. Price, cloth, $4.00.
- VOLUME LXVIII. 1916. 518 pp. Price, cloth, $4.50.
- VOLUME LXIX. 1919. 489 pp. Price, cloth, $4.00.
- VOLUME LXX. 1916. 540 pp. Price, cloth, $4.50.
- VOLUME LXXI. 1916. 476 pp. Price, cloth, $4.00.
- VOLUME LXXII. 1916. 542 pp. Price, cloth, $4.50.
- VOLUME LXXIII. 1919. 616 pp. Price, cloth, $4.50.
- VOLUME LXXIV. 1917. 546 pp. Price, cloth, $4.50.
- VOLUME LXXV. 1917. 410 pp. Price, cloth, $4.00.
- VOLUME LXXVI. 1917. 489 pp. Price, cloth, $4.00.
- VOLUME LXXVII. 1917. 473 pp. Price, cloth, $4.00.
- VOLUME LXXVIII. 1917. 647 pp. Price, cloth, $4.50.
- VOLUME LXXIX. 1917-1918. 535 pp. Price, cloth, $4.50.
- VOLUME LXXX. 1918. 448 pp. Price, cloth, $4.00.
- VOLUME LXXXI. 1918. 601 pp. Price, cloth, $4.50.
- VOLUME LXXXII. 1918-1919. 576 pp. Price, cloth, $4.50.
- VOLUME LXXXIII. 1919. 432 pp. Price, cloth, $4.00.
- VOLUME LXXXIV. 1919. 534 pp. Price, cloth, $4.50.
- VOLUME LXXXV. 1919. 450 pp. Price, cloth, $4.00.
- VOLUME LXXXVI. 1919. 460 pp. Price, cloth, $4.00.
- VOLUME LXXXVII. 1919. 451 pp. Price, cloth, $4.00.
- VOLUME LXXXVIII. 1919. 444 pp. Price, cloth, $4.00.
- VOLUME LXXXIX. 1919.
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