From its founding in 1905, the IWW was radical in its aim to organize workers as a single class, instead of as members of a particular trade or industry. The IWW faces enormous challenges, however.

People become IWW members in two ways. Some people join because of ideology and people join because of the union’s activity. Along the same lines, the IWW does two main things. First, it helps workers ...

A 1920 cartoon from the Industrial Workers of the World depicts the Philadelphia longshoremen's strike, led by IWW Local 8. One hundred years ago this month, a long-forgotten union powered by a ...

Kino Lorber is re-releasing 'The Wobblies,' the 1979 doc about the radical labor union directed by Stewart Bird and Deborah Shaffer ...

When the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW, whose members are often dubbed “Wobblies”) launched a campaign to unionize Starbucks baristas in 2004, the idea was so quixotic it seemed more ...

1979 Union Organizing Doc ‘The Wobblies’ Re-Released, Just As Labor Movement In America Comes Back To Life. ... The IWW focused on organizing miners, textile mill workers, ...