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A new critical history of the free speech fights of the Industrial Workers of the World, this illustrates how the colourful soapbox culture of the “Wobblies” generated novel forms of class struggle. Soapbox Rebellion highlights the methodological obstacles to recovering a workers’ history of public address; closely analyses the impact of hobo oratorical performances; and discusses the implications of the Wobblies’ free speech fights for understanding grassroots resistance and class struggle today.

Soapbox Rebellion The Hobo Orator Union and the

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      Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
      Publication Date: 10/30/2013 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780817318062, 978-0817318062
      ISBN10: 0817318062
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      Cultural studies Sociology: work and labour

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      Book Synopsis
      A new critical history of the free speech fights of the Industrial Workers of the World, this illustrates how the colourful soapbox culture of the “Wobblies” generated novel forms of class struggle. Soapbox Rebellion highlights the methodological obstacles to recovering a workers’ history of public address; closely analyses the impact of hobo oratorical performances; and discusses the implications of the Wobblies’ free speech fights for understanding grassroots resistance and class struggle today.

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