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Wobblies: see Industrial Workers of the World Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), revolutionary industrial union organized in Chicago in 1905 by delegates from the Western Federation of Mines, which formed the nucleus of the IWW, and 42 other labor organizations. ..... Click the link for more information. . Wobblies nickname for I.W.W. members. [Am. Hist.: Hart, 400] See : Labor |
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| She even presents evidence that at least a few Reo workers flirted with the Wobblies during the wildcat era. I would add that Paul Avrich and other scholars have had a lot to say about non-Marxist leftisms of various sorts as well--the anarchists, the Wobblies, and the syndicalists. In his poignant book Quand je dis Dieu and its even more searing sequel, Dieu fractures (God--in Fragments), (11) he pointed out that we use resurrection as a convenient excuse for degrading and devaluing the real lives we live here and now, promising "pie in the sky when you die," as the Wobblies sang. |
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