We Shall Be All: A History of the Industrial Workers of the World (abridged ed.) (The Working Class in American History) Abridged Edition

by Melvyn Dubofsky (Author), Joseph A. McCartin (Editor)

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This is the classic history of the Industrial Workers of the World, the influential band of labor militants whose activism mobilized America's poorest and most marginalized workers in the years before World War I.
Originally published in 1969, Melvyn Dubofsky's We Shall Be All has remained the definitive archive-based history of the IWW. While much has been written on aspects of the IWW's history in the past three decades, nothing has duplicated or surpassed this authoritative work. The present volume, an abridged version of this labor history classic, makes the compelling story of the IWW accessible to a new generation of readers.
In its heyday, between 1905 and 1919, the IWW nourished a dream of a better America where poverty-–material and spiritual–-would be erased and where all people, regardless of nationality or color, would walk free and equal. More than half a century ago the Wobblies tried in their own ways to grapple with issues that still plague the nation in a more sophisticated and properous era. Their example has inspired radicals in America and abroad over the greater part of a century

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This is the classic history of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), the influential band of labor militants whose activism mobilized America's poorest and most marginalized workers in the years before World War I.

Originally published in 1969, Melvyn Dubofsky's We Shall Be All has remained the definitive archive-based history of the IWW. While much has been written on aspects of the IWW's history in the past three decades, nothing has duplicated or surpassed this authoritative work. The present volume, an abridged version of this labor history classic, makes the compelling story of the IWW accessible to a new generation of readers.

In its heyday, between 1905 and 1919, the IWW nourished a dream of a better America where poverty would be erased and where all people would walk free and equal. More than half a century ago the Wobblies tried in their own ways to grapple with issues that still plague the nation in a more sophisticated and prosperous era. Their example has inspired radicals in America and abroad over the greater part of a century.

About the Author

Melvyn Dubofsky, Distinguished Professor of History at Binghamton University, SUNY, is the author of Hard Work: The Making of Labor History among other books, and coauthor of John L. Lewis: A Biography.Joseph A. McCartin, an associate professor of history at Georgetown University, is the author of Labor's Great War: The Struggle for Industrial Democracy and the Origins of Modern American Labor Relations, 1912-21.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ University of Illinois Press; Abridged edition (September 11, 2000)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 312 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0252069056
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0252069055
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 9.13 x 6.07 x 0.81 inches

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Heather Logan

Great read

Reviewed in the United States on October 19, 2018

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A great read
Working on my Masters and this book was recommended

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Fred McColly

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States on August 22, 2014

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the unabridged is better but this covers the intricacies of the iww's history much better than kornbluh.

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IWW History

Reviewed in the United States on March 17, 2013

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Arguably the definitive history of the IWW by a careful historian, rightly esteemed. Other labor historians of this era almost always owe him some debt.

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A Rehabilitation of a Counterproductive Failure

Reviewed in the United States on December 28, 2018

Melvyn Dubofsky’s 500-page history of the IWW is too much, and feels like a thousand. In his book, the voices of contemporary labor leaders who rightly disdained the IWW are the only break from the narrow and irrational minds he too often celebrates. There are hints of what passes for criticism. For this author, there’s little amiss in a fractious organization united around little more than a hatred of the most important trade union in U.S. history, the AFL. They were militant to the point of being demented, yet we are asked to feel scandalized when the public grows uneasy, the press hysterical, and the government intervenes, always unjustly for Dubofsky. Many employers and government officials are quoted as saying that they did not oppose labor unions, only the violent thrust of the IWW, but Dubofsky is there each time to assert otherwise. We should be disappointed when they can’t get along with each other or attract a sizeable following. They are revolutionaries with no revolution in sight. They suffer, sometimes terribly, but never due to their irrational beliefs that they pressed on the small communities they intimidated or because many of them live to break the law. The IWW must be a source of inspiration and bravery, never confusion or fear among workers.

I suppose a reader or historian may credit Dubofsky with organizing the more or less relevant material in chronological order. Authors of capable and considered work on U.S. labor history include Leon Fink, Sheldon Stromquist, Richard Schneirov, Nick Salvatore, Timothy Messer-Kruse, Craig Phelan, Beverly Gage, and Julie Greene.

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morgan miller

Not the classic it's presented as...

Reviewed in the United States on September 5, 2001

This book caused a major stir when first released in the 60s. But labor history studies have changed a great deal since that time. The entire orientation of this book is patronizing to the amazing works of the IWW.
For example:
1) It completely ignores the IWW's international aspects, for example that the IWW had more influence in Chile and Australia than in the US and Canada.
2) It glosses over the IWWs activities during the 1920s, the Marine Transport Workers' control of the Wetsern Hemisphere's shipping, longshore workers in North America, the 1927 Colorado Miners' Strike, etc. etc.
3) It has no coherent understanding of why the IWW declined. How FDR worked with Lewis and the CIO to force unionization, the principled stands the IWW took to stop the rise of business unionism, and some buttheadedess by the IWW's membership.
It contains many good stories and is an OK overview. The definitive work is still waiting on the subject.

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