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Harvest Wobblies : the Industrial Workers of the World and agricultural laborers in the American West, 1905-1930 / Greg Hall.
Lippincott Library HD6515.A292 A394 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hall, Greg, 1961-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Agricultural Workers' Industrial Union.
- Industrial Workers of the World.
- Agricultural laborers--Labor unions--United States--History.
- Agricultural laborers.
- Agricultural laborers--Labor unions.
- History.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 279 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Corvallis : Oregon State University Press, [2001]
- Summary:
- Members of the agricultural wing of the radical IWW worked in most western states, from the wheat fields of the Great Plains to the fruit orchards of California and Washington. This lively history traces the rise and fall of the Harvest Wobblies and describes their struggle to organize a racially diverse union of migrant and seasonal laborers.
- Contents:
- Working for wages in the West
- Organizing workers in the streets and on the farms
- A bumper crop of Harvest Wobblies
- War and persecution
- Perseverance amid change
- The resurgence of Harvest Wobblies
- The road to oblivion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-271) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0870715321
- OCLC:
- 46811975
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