Wobblies Movie And Potluck At Cream City Collective

The Wobblies - as important as a historical document as it was influential as a documentary film. The International Workers of the World (IWW), nicknamed The Wobblies, are a labor organization that is still in existence today. Though its significance has waned considerably since its heyday at the turn of the previous century, the problems they sought to counter at the time--unchecked corporate greed, an atomized global workforce, worker abuse, unsafe working conditions, and so on--are still very much with us. The Wobblies presents the history of the vibrant labor organization from the bottom up. While it was certainly important to relate these oral histories from the perspective of the rank-and-file workers, it was a choice borne partially out of necessity; when the filmmakers shot most of the interviews for the film in 1976 and 1977, the leaders (Big Bill Haywood, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn) were all dead. The film's interview subjects were even in their seventies up to early nineties at the time, so in one sense it is crucial that they chose to rescue this piece of labor history when they did.

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