Miscellaneous Documents
Not all of the authors listed below were members of the IWW (in the case of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, both of them were dead by the time of the IWW's formation). These documents are organized by date (in ascending order):
Before 1900:
- Wage Labor and Capital - by Karl Marx (1847) (PDF File)
- Value, Price, and Profit - by Karl Marx (1865) (PDF File)
- Socialism: Utopian and Scientific - by Frederick Engels (1880) (PDF File)
- Historical Materialism - by Frederick Engels (1892) (PDF File)
1900-09:
- The Scab - by Jack London (1903)
1910-19:
- Socialism and Primative Christianity - by William Thurston Brown (1910) (PDF File)
- The Truth About the IWW - by the National Civil Liberties Bureau (April 1918) (PDF File)
1920-29:
- How An Industrial Union Works - by Giovanni Baldazzi (February 1920)
- The One Big Union of Canada - by P. G. Anderson & C. B. Currie (December 1920)
- Chilean IWW Under the "White Terror" of Chilean Bourgeoisie - by the Chilean IWW (January 1921)
- "High Spots" of the 13th IWW Convention (Part 1) - by Roy Brown (June 1921)
- "High Spots" of the 13th IWW Convention (Part 2) - by Roy Brown (July 1921)
- The Work Peoples' College - by Rosa Knuuti (October 1921)
1960-69:
- Rebel Voices (1st Edition) Part 1 | Part 2 - by Joyce Kormbluh (1964) (PDF FIle)
- Rebels of the Woods: The IWW in the Pacific Northwest - by Robert Tyler (1967)
- The Wobblies: The Story of Syndicalism in the United States - by Patrick Renshaw (1968) (PDF File)
1980-89:
- Ben Fletcher: portrait of a black syndicalist - by Jeff Stein (Summer 1987) (PDF File)
- Greening of the IWW: What Happens When We Win? - by Jess Grant (August 1989)
- Enviro-Unionists - by Jess Grant (June, 20, 1989)
1990-99:
- The IWW and Electoral Politics: An Historical Overview - by John Sillito (November 1991)
- If Voting Could Change Things ... The Labor Party Illusion - by Jon Bekken (November 1991)
- ...They'd Make it Illegal: The Green Party Illusion - by Jess Grant (November 1991)
- A Short History of IWW Organizing in Ann Arbor 1981-1989 - by Mark Kaufmann (1993)
- The Brief Origins of May Day - by Eric Chase (1993)
- IWW Organizing in the 1970s - by Mike Hargis (1994)
- A Memoir - Some Anarchist Activities in New York in the '30s and '40s - by Clara Freedman Solomon (September 28, 1995) (PDF File)
- "Virile Syndicalism" in Comparative Perspective: a Gender Analysis of the IWW in the United States and Australia - By Francis Shor (March 14, 1998)
- A Brief History of the IWW Outside the United States of America - by FN Brill (1999)
- Nothing in Common: An Oral History of IWW Strikes 1971-1992 - edited by John Silvano (1999) (PDF File).
- Reply to the De Leonist Society of Canada - by Frank Girard (1999)
2000-09:
- The IWW, Revolutionary Syndicalism, and Working Class Struggle in South Africa, 1910-1921 - by Lucien van der Walt (ca 2000) (PDF File)
- Arguments For a Four-Hour Day - by Jon Bekken (2000)
- The Coalition of Immokalee Workers and the IWW - by Rob Augman (May 12, 2001)
- Less Time for Work, More Time for Life! - by the Boston IWW (June 2002)
- Will We Lose the 8-hour Day? - by Jon Bekken (May 2003)
- A Fight for Free Speech in San Diego - by Davey Jones (January 21, 2005)
- Importance of French Workers' Struggle to Keep 35 Hour Week Shouldn't be Underestimated - by Richard Mellor (February 16, 2005)
- The IWW - It's First 100 Years - by Harry Siitonen (March 2005)
- Industrial Unionism: The History of the IWW in Aotearoa & Aim, Form, and Tactics of a Workers’ Union on I.W.W. Lines - Various Authors (2006) (PDF File)
- The First Globalisation and Transnational Labour Activism in Southern Africa: White Labourism, the IWW, and the ICU, 1904–1934 - By Lucien van der Walt (2007) (PDF File)
- Black Working Class Radicalism In Detroit, 1960-1970 - by Dr. Luke Trip (2009)
2010-Present:
- Business Unionism vs. Revolutionary Unionism - by Dave Neal (2011)
- Two Concepts For IWW Organizing: Industrial Unionism And One Big Unionism - by John O’Reilly and Nate Hawthorne (June 2011)
- How the IWW can contribute to Working Class Revolution - by Phinneas gage (2011)