Direct Action & Sabotage: Three Classic IWW Pamphlets from the 1910s - Couverture souple

Flynn, Elizabeth Gurley; Smith, Walker C.; Trautmann, William E.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1604864826 ISBN 13 : 9781604864823

Editeur : PM Press, 2014

Synopsis

The pamphlets reprinted here were first published in the 1910s amid great controversy. This new edition from the Charles H. Kerr Library contains 'Direct Action and Sabotage' (1912) by William E. Trautmann, 'Sabotage: Its History, Philosophy and Function' (1913) by Walker C. Smith and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn's 'Sabotage: The Conscious Withdrawal of the Workers' Industrial Efficiency' (1916), edited and with an introduction by Salvatore Salerno.

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À propos des auteurs

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, "The Rebel Girl" (1890-1964) was a labor leader, activist, and feminist who played a leading role in the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). Flynn was a founding member of the American Civil Liberties Union and a visible proponent of women's rights, birth control, and women's suffrage.

Walker C. Smith was a leading member of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), who wrote and edited socialist newspapers, philosophical tracts, pamphlets, satirical plays, and even verse. Smith regularly went on speaking tours to promote the cause of the Wobblies and recruit new members. Since Smith was a "noted IWW agitator," police arrested him frequently for his union activities. Smith's most famous pamphlet, Sabotage, was used by courts throughout the United States as evidence that members of the IWW union were guilty of criminal syndicalism for simply belonging to the union. Though Sabotage was probably Smith's most widely distributed pamphlet, his most famous work was The Everett Massacre, a book intended to reveal the injustices committed against the working classes of Everett, Washington.

William Ernst Trautmann was a leading theorist and founding general secretary-treasurer of the IWW and one of six people who initially laid plans for the organization in 1904. Between 1905 and 1912 he mostly worked in the field as an organizer. In 1922 Trautmann published a novel, Riot, that drew on his experiences as an IWW activist during the Pressed Steel Car Strike of 1909 in McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania.

Salvatore Salerno is the author of Red November, Black November: Culture and Community in the Industrial Workers of the World and has contributed articles to the Haymarket Scrapbook and many other publications. He is a professor on the Community Faculty staff of Metropolitan State University in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: PM Press
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1604864826
• ISBN 13: 9781604864823
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 120
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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