An Annotated Bibliography of Books on the IWW - Compiled by Steve Kellerman, Revised June 2007.

We have created this bibliography to provide you a reference guide for further information about the Industrial Workers of the World.

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You are welcome to suggest further sources for inclusion in our library and bibliography. We are especially interested in whole texts written by IWW members. Please contact us if you have suggestions.

Books and Pamphlets (arranged Alphabetically by Author)

Disclaimer - Some of these pamphlets were written before or after these individuals joined / left the IWW. These writings, while interesting to Wobblies, are not official IWW literature and don't necessarily reflect the principles, practices, or purposes of the IWW.

General Documents:

• Minutes of the IWW Founding Convention.

Paul Brissenden:

• The I.W.W. : a study of American syndicalism - by Paul Brissenden (who was not an IWW member, but rather a sociologist who was begrudgingly sympathetic to the IWW), 1919 - link
  

Ralph Chaplin:

• The Centralia Conspiracy - by Ralph Chaplin, reissued 1971  (PDF File)

James Connolly:

• Socialism Made Easy - by James Connolly, 1909 - (PDF File).
• Labor, Nationality, and Religion - by J. Connolly, 1910 - (PDF File).

Eugene V Debs:

• Craft Unionism - A Speech Delivered by Eugene V Debs in Chicago on November 23, 1905; resissued October 1909 - (PDF File).
• Class Unionism - A Speech Delivered by Eugene V Debs in South Chicago on November 24, 1905; resissued October 1909 - (PDF File).
• Revolutionary Unionism - A Speech Delivered by Eugene V Debs in Chicago on November 25, 1905; resissued Sept. 1909 - (PDF File).
• Industrial Unionism - A Speech Delivered by Eugene V Debs at Grand Central Palace in New York City on December 10, 1905. - (PDF File).
• You Railroad Men - by Eugene V Debs, 1906 - (PDF File).
• The Issue - by Eugene V Debs, 1908 - (PDF File).
• The Federal Government and the Chicago Strike - by Eugene V Debs, 1910 - (PDF File).
• Danger Ahead - by Eugene V Debs, 1911 - (PDF File).

Sam Dolgoff:

• The American Labor Movement, a New Beginning - Sam Dolgoff, 1980.
• The Cuban Revolution: A Critical Perspective - by Sam Dolgoff, 1974.
• The Relevance of Anarchism to Modern Society - by Sam Dolgoff, 1971. (PDF File)

Justus Ebert:

•  The Trial of a New Society - by Justus Ebert, 1913*

Joseph Ettor:

•  Industrial Unionism: the Road to Freedom - by Joseph Ettor, 1913*.

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn:

• Sabotage - The Conscious Withdrawal of the Workers' Industrial Efficiency, by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, October 1916.

Joe Hill:

• Joe Hill Biography & Last Will (in Persian).

William Meyers:

• Introducing Anarcho-Syndicalism - by William Meyers - (PDF File).
• Nonviolence and its Violent Consequences - by W Meyers - (PDF File).

James Rowan & LWIU 120:

• The Lumber Industry and Its Workers - by James Rowan, 1920.

Walker C. Smith:

• The Everett Massacre, a History of the Class Struggle in the Lumber Industry - by Walker C Smith, 1916. (PDF Files)
• Introduction
• Chapter 1 - The Lumber Kingdom
• Chapter 2 - Class War Skirmishes
• Chapter 3 - A Reign of Terror
• Chapter 4 - Bloody Sunday
• Chapter 5 - Behind Prison Bars
• Chapter 6 - The Prosecution
• Chapter 7 - The Defense
• Chapter 8 - Pleadings and the Verdict
• Chapter 9 - Solidarity Scores a Success

• Sabotage: Its History, Philosophy & Function - 1917 edition; originally published in 1913.*
  

William E Trautmann:

• Industrial Unionism: The Hope of the Workers - 1913*.
• One Big Union - 1st edition, 1911 (Revised and reissued many times)*.
  
• Why Strikes are Lost & How to Win - 1912 (Featured in the "How to Organize" section of this site).
  

Author(s) Unknown:

• An Economic Interpretation of the Job - 1922*.
• Education and System: the Basis of Organization - 1924*.
  
• Giant Industry and the I. W. W. - 1925*.
  
• The Historical Catechism of American Unionism - 1923. (Web Version)* | (PDF File)
  
• The I. W. W.: What It Is and What It Is Not - ca. 1928*.
  
• So You're Out of a Job - April 1933. (PDF File).
• Unemployment and the Machine - 1934*.
  

Others:

• Justice and the IWW - by Paul F Brissenden, 1920 - (PDF File).
• 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).
  
• A Memoir - Some Anarchist Activities in New York in the '30s and '40s - by Clara Freedman Solomon, September 28, 1995. (PDF File)
  
• The IWW, Revolutionary Syndicalism, and Working Class Struggle in South Africa, 1910-1921 - by Lucien van der Walt. (PDF File)