Description
Book SynopsisTrade 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 *
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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 ContentsContents
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
