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Book SynopsisVerity Burgmann writes with vigour and passion about the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) in Australia. The book claims that this alternative form of revolutionary working-class politics has been undervalued. It describes the 'Wobblies' activities and culture, and their impact on Australian political history.
Table of Contents1. 'Flowers to the rebels failed'; 2. 'On the industrial as well as on the political field': the IWW Clubs, 1905–1910; 3. 'Wild men from Yankeeland': the arrival of the Chicago IWW, 1910–1914; 4. 'Education, organisation, emancipation': the revolutionary project; 5. 'We, the hoboes': who were the Wobblies?; 6. 'No barriers of race': the challenge to working-class racism; 7. 'It's great to fight for freedom with a rebel girl': the answer to the Woman Question; 8. 'A real democracy': organisation and practice; 9. 'A poor day's work for a poor day's pay': ethics and economics, 10. 'Bump me into parliament': the critique of Labourism, 11. 'An injury to one an injury to all': direct industrial action, 12. 'Let those who own Australia do the fighting: opposing the war, 13. 'With the ferocity of a Bengal tiger': the state responds, 14. 'Set the twelve men free': the release campaign, 15. What happened to the Wobblies?
