Documents by the IWW

Documents featured here are written under the office of the IWW, or, in some cases, their specific author(s) is (or are) unknown--though careful and thorough research could conceivably determine their actual identity.  

1900-09:

• Industrial Union Manifesto (1905)

1910-19:

• "Jersey Justice" at Work (1913)

1920-29:

• Exposed! - Marine Transport Workers Industrial Union of the I. W. W. Replies to Accusations Made Against It by Andrew Furuseth (1922)
• An Economic Interpretation of the Job (June 1922)
• The IWW Reply to the Red Trade Union International (November 1922)
• Cut Down The Hours Of Work! (1923)
• The Historical Catechism of American Unionism (1923) (PDF File)
• Education and System: The Basis of Organization (1924)
• Giant Industry and the IWW (1925)
• Lumber Workers - You Need Organization! (1927)
• The I. W. W. - What It Is And What It Is Not (1928)

1930-39:

• So You're Out of a Job (April 1933) (PDF File)
• Unemployment and the Machine (1934)

• General ByLaws of Lumber Workers iu120 of the I.W.W. (1936)

1940-49:

• Chicago Replies to Moscow (1945)
• A Union for all Railroad Workers (1949)

2000-09:

• Plates on the Roof: IU640 Stories of Radical Hotel and Restaurant Workers (2001)

2010-19:

• The general strike that didn't happen: a report on the activity of the IWW in Wisconsin (2011)