Many important writings by IWW Members are featured on our Organize Page. Others are shown in the alerts bar at the right. Most of the rest are featured below. The process of recovering IWW history is ongoing and this section will be updated regularly.
Online Encyclopedia Entires about the IWW - Disclaimer: while we try to list only accurate descriptions about the IWW, some of these texts can be altered over time and can lose accuracy.
- Wikipedia Entry for "IWW" - Based on data and information provided by the IWW.
Recent Publications by the IWW (1990-2001)
- Some Wobbly Proposals for Hawai'i - 1993, by the Oahu General Membership Branch of the IWW.
- Santa Cruz IWW Nonviolence Resolution - July 1993.
- The Criminalization of Dissent - 1994, by the Santa Cruz IWW General Membership Branch.
- Tsunami Issue #1 - March 1995, by various IWW branches, including Santa Cruz, Philadelphia, and Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania.
- Classrooms First! - A History Of The 1996 Oakland Teacher's Strike, by Jason Justice, 1996.
- Working People's Library - 1996-00, various articles by Arthur J Miller and others.
- Beyond Cooperation - An Introduction to the Industrial Workers of the World for Workers' Collectives - PDF Document.
- The IWW and the Living Wage - by the Lawrence, Kansas GMB of the IWW, 1999.
- The Coalition of Immokalee Workers and the IWW - By Rob Augman, May 12, 2001
Especially for Workers working in Hotels, Bars, and Restaurants:
- New Tactics for Organizing in the Restaurant Industry - PDF File.
- Hospitality Workers IU640 Demands - PDF File.
Critical Studies on the IWW
- Politics vs. Syndicalism: a Case Study of the IWW - by Luther Gaylord.
- Revolt of the "Timber Beasts" - IWW Lumber Strike in Minnesota, by John E. Haynes, Minnesota History, Spring 1971 (Volume 42, number 5, pages 163-174).
- A Fight for Free Speech in San Diego - By Davey Jones - original published on San Diego Indymedia, January 21, 2005.
- Virile Syndicalism in Comparative Perspective - A Gender Analysis of the IWW in the United States and Australia, by Francis Shor - Wayne State University.
- Excerpts from Howard Zinn's People's History of the United States:
- The Founding Convention of the IWW - Excerpts from Chapter 13, "The Socialist Challenge".
- The IWW Shattered - Excerpts from Chapter 14, "War is the Health of the State".
- The Seattle General Strike of 1919 - Excerpts from Chapter 15, "Self Help in Hard Times".
Short Historical Writings and Dialogues With IWW Members:
- Authoritarian Leftists: Kill the Cop in Your Head - Lorenzo Komboa Ervin - Black Autonomy, April 1996.
- Why I became an IWW - Helen Keller Interviewed by Barbara Bindley, New York Tribune, January 15, 1916.
- The Scab - By Jack London (a supporter of the IWW); a speech first given before the Oakland Socialist Party Local April 5, 1903.
- A Letter from our Herstory - A description of IWW organizing, written in 1917 by Jane Street, Secretary of the Denver IWW Domestic Workers' Industrial Union, Local #113.
Articles from the One Big Union Monthly:
- What is the IWW and What Does it Want?, by Justus Ebert - from the OBU Monthly, March 1, 1919.
- The Chilean I. W. W. Under the "White Terror" of Chilean Bourgeoisie - From the OBU Monthly, January 1921.
Articles from the Industrial Pioneer:
- Organization - by James Kennedy - Industrial Pioneer, April 1921.
- "High Spots" of the Thirteenth I. W. W. Convention, Compiled by Roy Brown, GEB Chair - Part 1, From the Industrial Pioneer, June 1921.
- "High Spots" of the Thirteenth I. W. W. Convention, Compiled by Roy Brown, GEB Chair - Part 2 From the Industrial Pioneer, July 1921.
- Work People's College, by Rosa Knuuti - From the Industrial Pioneer, October 1921.
