All of the victims belonged to a single, and singular, organization: the Industrial Workers of the World. Founded in 1905, the Wobblies set forth on a revolutionary mission.

And the IWW did much to popularize the idea of industrial unionism, by which workers in a given industry were organized into a single union, regardless of trade, helping to prepare the way for the ...

Hundreds of “Wobblies” and their supporters showed up in New York City for this 1914 demonstration in support of the International Workers of the World, a radical, anti-capitalism labor union.

The IWW and officials clashed again in 1917, when the union made demands that agricultural workers get better pay, recommending hop pickers get $3.50 a day — about $85 when adjusted for ...

Recently, I’ve been reading about the foundations of the American Labor Movement. Specifically, the birth of the Industrial Workers of the World and a group called the Wobblies, a nickname given to ...

Q&A with Professor Ahmed White, whose new book gives a dramatic, deeply researched account of how legal repression and vigilantism brought down the Wobblies—and how the destruction of their union ...