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Industrial Workers of the World (1905 - )

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1905
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Political Group
Alternative Names
  • IWW (Accronym)

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See Verity Burgmann, Revolutionary Industrial Unionism (1995).

Resources

Books

  • Industrial Workers of the World: Preamble and Constitution, Industrial Workers of the World, Chicago, 1908. Image PDF Details
  • Constitution of the Industrial Workers of the World Club of Australasia & New Zealand, The People Printery, Sydney, 1912. Image PDF Details
  • One Big Union, 8th edn, Industrial Workers of the World, Philadelphia, 2001. Image PDF Details
  • Fanning Discontent's Flames: Australian Wobbly Poetry, Scurrilous Doggerel, and Song. 1914 - 2007, Industrial Workers of the World, Albany, March 2007. Image PDF Details
  • "Joe the Bear", Job Control, Workers' International Industrial Union & The Socialist Labor Party, Adelaide, 1928. Image PDF Details
  • Anderson, Norman C., One Big Union For Australia, Will Andrade, Melbourne, 1922. Image PDF Details
  • Boote, Henry E, Guilty or not guilty? : an examination of the I.W.W. cases, Labor Council of N.S.W, Sydney, 1917?. Image PDF Details
  • Boote, Henry E, Set the 12 men free : an examination of the sensational fresh facts brought out before the I.W.W Royal Commission, Committee appointed by N.S.W. Labor Council, Sydney, 1919?. Image PDF Details
  • Childe, Vere Gordon, How labour governs, A study of workers' representation in Australia, 1923 edn, The Labour Publishing Company, London, 188 pp. PDF Details
  • Patten, John, Ned Kelly's Ghost: The Tottenham I.W.W. and the Tottenham Tragedy, Kate Sharpey Library, London, 1997. Image PDF Details

Correspondences

Fliers

  • Rank and File News Collective Invite you to a New Year's Eve Solidarity Party on the Picket, Rank and File News Collective, Melbourne, December 1998. Image PDF Details
  • Borders Workers Need a Union, Industrial Workers of the World, Melbourne, 1998?. Image PDF Details
  • Coburg Residents take on McDonald's, Residents Against McDonald's (RAM), 1999. images PDF Details

Government documents

  • New South Wales Legislative Assembly, Inquiry Under the Police Inquiry Act, 1918: Report of Mr Justice Street, the Commissioner Appointed by the Act, William Applegate Gullick, Government Printer, this scan courtesy State Library of Victoria and Simon Pickering, Sydney, 28 August, 65 pp. PDF Details

Journals

  • Socialist Worker, no. 4, Socialist Workers Party [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, Winter 1978. Image PDF Details
  • International Socialist, no. 9, International Socialists, Melbourne, 1979?. Image PDF Details

Journal Articles

  • Hill, E.F., 'The Party as the inheritor of socialist trends in the Victorian Labor Movement', Communist Review, August 1945. Image PDF Details

Newsletters

  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, Industrial Workers of the World, Melbourne, Summer 98/99. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, Industrial Workers of the World, Melbourne, Winter 1998. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 4, Industrial Workers of the World, Autumn 1999. Image PDF Details
  • Ovaries Forever: IWW Sister Workers Newsletter 1999-2000, Industrial Workers of the World, 1999. Image PDF Details
  • Workers Solidarity: Publication of the Melbourne IWW, Industrial Workers of the World, Melbourne, August 1999. Image PDF Details
  • Workers Solidarity: Publication of the Melbourne IWW, Industrial Workers of the World, Melbourne, April 1999. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 4, Industrial Workers of the World, Winter 1999. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 4, Industrial Workers of the World, Summer 99/2000. Image PDF Details
  • Workers Solidarity: Publication of the Melbourne IWW, Industrial Workers of the World, Melbourne, May 2000. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, Industrial Workers of the World, Autumn 2000. Image PDF Details
  • About Time, Industrial Workers of the World, Albany, May-June 2008. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, Industrial Workers of the World, 2008. Image PDF Details
  • About Time, Industrial Workers of the World, Albany, March 2008. Image PDF Details

Newspapers

  • Rebel Worker, vol. 1, no. 5, October 1982. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 1, no. 14, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, October 1, 1914. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 1, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, November 1, 1914. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 1, no. 12, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, August 22, 1914. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 1, no. 11, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, August 10, 1914. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 1, no. 10, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, August 1, 1914. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 1, no. 9, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, July 15, 1914. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 1, no. 6, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, June 1, 1914. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 1, no. 5, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, May 15, 1914. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 1, no. 17, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, November 15, 1914. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 2, no. 24, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, March 1, 1915. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 2, no. 35, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, August 15, 1915. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 2, no. 43, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, October 30, 1915. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 2, no. 41, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, October 16, 1915. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 2, no. 44, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, November 6, 1915. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 2, no. 47, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, November 27, 1915. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 2, no. 39, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, October 2, 1915. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 2, no. 38, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, October 1, 1915. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 2, no. 34, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, August 1, 1915. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 2, no. 33, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, July 15, 1915. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 2, no. 31, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, June 15, 1915. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 2, no. 28, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, May 1, 1915. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 2, no. 25, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, March 15, 1915. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 2, no. 23, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, February 15, 1915. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 2, no. 42, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, October 23, 1915. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 2, no. 48, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, December 4, 1915. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 2, no. 26, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, April 1, 1915. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 2, no. 50, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, December 18, 1915. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 2, no. 51, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, December 25, 1915. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 2, no. 40, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, October 9, 1915. image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 2, no. 49, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, December 11, 1915. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 3, no. 100, Industrial Workers of the World, Sydney, December 16, 1916. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 3, no. 101, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, December 23, 1916. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 3, no. 99, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, December 9, 1916. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 3, no. 98, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, December 2, 1916. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 3, no. 97, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, November 18, 1916. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 3, no. 96, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, November 11, 1916. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 3, no. 95, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, November 4, 1916. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 3, no. 94, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, October 28, 1916. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 2, no. 53, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, January 15, 1916. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 2, no. 58, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, February 19, 1916. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 2, no. 57, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, February 12, 1916. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 2, no. 56, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, February 5, 1916. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 2, no. 55, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, January 29, 1916. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 2, no. 54, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, January 22, 1916. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 2, no. 52, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, January 8, 1916. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 3, no. 102, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, December 30, 1916. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 3, no. 93, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, October 21, 1916. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 4, no. 124, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, June 2, 1917. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 4, no. 123, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, May 26, 1917. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 4, no. 122, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, May 19, 1917. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 4, no. 125, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, June 9, 1917. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 4, no. 120, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, May 5, 1917. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 4, no. 130, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, July 14, 1917. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 4, no. 121, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, May 12, 1917. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 4, no. 126, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, June 16, 1917. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 4, no. 127, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, June 23, 1917. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 4, no. 129, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, July 7, 1917. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 4, no. 131, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, July 21, 1917. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 4, no. 131, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, August 4, 1917. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 4, no. 135, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, August 18, 1917. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 4, no. 119, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, April 28, 1917. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: An Organ of Industrial Unionism, vol. 1, no. 1, Industrial Union Propaganda League [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, December 1, 1921. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 4, no. 114, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, March 24, 1917. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 4, no. 128, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, June 30, 1917. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 3, no. 105, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, January 20, 1917. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 4, no. 116, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, April 7, 1917. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 3, no. 104, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, January 13, 1917. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 4, no. 118, Industrial Workers of the World, Sydney, April 21, 1917. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 3, no. 106, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, January 27, 1917. image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 4, no. 107, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, February 3, 1917. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 4, no. 108, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, February 10, 1917. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 4, no. 109, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, February 17, 1917. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 4, no. 110, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, February 24, 1917. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 4, no. 111, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, March 3, 1917. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 4, no. 112, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, March 10, 1917. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 4, no. 113, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, March 17, 1917. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 4, no. 115, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, March 24, 1917. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 4, no. 117, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, April 14, 1917. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 3, no. 103, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, January 6, 1917. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: An Organ of Industrial Unionism, vol. 1, no. 3, Industrial Union Propaganda League [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, February, 1922. Image PDF Details

Newspaper Articles

  • 'Where we stand', Southern Advocate for Workers' Councils and International Digest, Dawson, J.A., Melbourne, 1946?. Image PDF Details
  • 'The need for the IWW', Southern Advocate for Workers' Councils and International Digest, 1947?. Image PDF Details

Pamphlets

  • I.W.W. songs, Publishing Bureau [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, 1915?. Image PDF Details
  • How the war came : with a chronicle of events compiled from all the official papers published by the European governments, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, 1915?. Image PDF Details
  • Challenge - Mr. Holman, Political Labor League, Sydney, 1916. Image PDF Details
  • Speeches from the dock of New South Wales and West Australian I.W.W. members convicted of treason, Workers’ Defence and Release Committee [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, 1917. Image PDF Details
  • Mr. Windeyer’s great indictment., Release and Defence Committee [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, 1918. Image PDF Details
  • Dissenterlink Update: Linking Social Security Recipients, Industrial Workers of the World, Melbourne, 199?. Image PDF Details
  • Boote, H. E., The Case of Grant. Fifteen Years for Fifteen Words, Social Democratic League [this scan courtesy of the University of Melbourne Library], Sydney, 1917, 32 pp. PDF Details
  • Fry, E. C. (ed.), Tom Barker and the I.W.W., Industrial Workers of the World, Brisbane, 1999. Image PDF Details
  • Glyn, Tom, Industrial Efficency and its Antidote, Solidarity Pamphlets - Mental Dynamite Series, Industrial Workers of the World, Albany, 2006. Image PDF Details
  • I.W.W. Prisoners Release Committee, Breakers of Men or Torturing the Twelve., An Exposure of the Brutal and Coercive Treatment of the Twelve I.W.W. Men in the Gaols of N.S.W., I.W.W. Prisoners Release Committee [this scan courtesy of State Library of Victoria], Melbourne, circa 1919, 32 pp. PDF Details
  • J.H.Greer, The Social Evil. Prostitution: Its Cause and Cure, Industrial Workers of the World, Sydney, n.d.[1917], 48 pp. PDF Details
  • Miller, Montague, The Passing of Parliament, Solidarity Pamphlets - Mental Dynamite Series, Industrial Workers of the World, Albany, 2006. Image PDF Details
  • Workers' Industrial Union of Australia, Workers' Industrial Union of Australia. Preamble, Classification and Rules, Melbourne, 1919, 31 pp. PDF Details

Reports

  • Legislative Assembly New South Wales, Report of Royal Commission of Inquiry (Hon. N.K.Ewing) into the Matter of the Trial and Conviction and Sentences imposed on Charles Reeve and Others, Sydney, 11 August 1920, 17 pp. PDF Details

See also