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Trade Review
"A comprehensive account of the campaign waged by the American state to destroy the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW, or ‘Wobblies’) in the decade surrounding the First World War. . . . Harrowing reading." * World Socialist Website *
"Under the Iron Heel examines the role that progressive and conservative policymakers played in subduing the union, raising questions about political tolerance for organized labor today." * Yale Law Report *

Table of Contents
Contents

Introduction
Face to Face with Tragedy

1. Socialism with Its Working Clothes On
Industrial Capitalism, Radical Unionism, and the Roots of Repression
2. Protecting the Business People
Class, Law, and the Criminalization of Radical Industrial Unionism
3. In the War of Capital against Labor Someone Must Suffer
The War and the IWW
4. I’ll Take neither Mercy nor Pity
Repression and the IWW during the Red Scare
5. Dealing the Death Blow
Repression and the IWW after the Red Scare
6. Between the Drowning and the Broken
Punishment, Law, and the Legacies of Repression
Conclusion
A Vision We Don’t Possess

Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Under the Iron Heel

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      Publisher University of California Press
      Published 13 February 2024
      ISBN-13 9780520402287
      978-0520402287
      ISBN-10 0520402286
      Also in:
      Industrial relations, occupational health Political science and theory

      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Trade Review
      "A comprehensive account of the campaign waged by the American state to destroy the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW, or ‘Wobblies’) in the decade surrounding the First World War. . . . Harrowing reading." * World Socialist Website *
      "Under the Iron Heel examines the role that progressive and conservative policymakers played in subduing the union, raising questions about political tolerance for organized labor today." * Yale Law Report *

      Table of Contents
      Contents

      Introduction
      Face to Face with Tragedy

      1. Socialism with Its Working Clothes On
      Industrial Capitalism, Radical Unionism, and the Roots of Repression
      2. Protecting the Business People
      Class, Law, and the Criminalization of Radical Industrial Unionism
      3. In the War of Capital against Labor Someone Must Suffer
      The War and the IWW
      4. I’ll Take neither Mercy nor Pity
      Repression and the IWW during the Red Scare
      5. Dealing the Death Blow
      Repression and the IWW after the Red Scare
      6. Between the Drowning and the Broken
      Punishment, Law, and the Legacies of Repression
      Conclusion
      A Vision We Don’t Possess

      Acknowledgments
      List of Abbreviations
      Notes
      Bibliography
      Index

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