Rebel Voices: An IWW Anthology

Description

The impact of IWW ('Industrial Workers of the World', otherwise known as 'Wobblies') has reverberated far beyond the ranks of organised labour. Originally published in 1964 and long out of print, Rebel Voices remains by far the biggest and best source for IWW history, fiction, songs, art and lore. This new edition includes 40 pages of additional material by Fred Thompson and Franklin Rosemont and a new preface by Wobbly organiser Daniel Gross.

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. Fred Thompson was a publisher with Charles H. Kerr. Franklin Rosemont was a poet, an artist, a historian, a street speaker, the cofounder of the Chicago Surrealist Group, and a publisher at Charles H. Kerr. Daniel Gross is an organizer with the Industrial Workers of the World and a cofounder of the first union in the United States at the Starbucks Coffee Co. He is also the founding director of Brandworkers International, a nonprofit organization protecting and advancing the rights of retail and food employees. He lives in New York City.

"Not even the doughtiest of capitalism's defenders can read these pages without understanding how much glory and nobility there was in the IWW story, and how much shame for the nation that treated the Wobblies so shabbily." --New York Times Book Review, on the 1964 edition. "The IWW blazed a path in industrial history and its influence is still felt today. Joyce Kornbluh has performed a valuable service to unionism by compiling this comprehensive anthology on the more militant side of labor history." --Southwest Labor