IWW Centenary

From: Julie Herrada

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the founding the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). The IWW is the oldest anti-capitalist trade union federation in history. Their mission, the abolition of the wage system, still holds today; their practice of justice and fairness and their commitment to worker empowerment serves as a model for all trade unions.

Fifth Estate (http://www.fifthestate.org) will be joining in this centenary celebration by dedicating its Fall issue to the topic of "Wobblies and Work."

Wobbly Culture

Wobbly Culture on laborarts.org
Friends, we have a new exhibit on the LaborArts.org website, created by Joseph Deodato, and we'd be delighted to hear your thoughts.

"Solidarity Forever: A Look at Wobbly Culture celebrates one of the most remarkable developments in the American labor movement's history-- the formation just a century ago of the Industrial Workers of the World. The exhibit features cartoons, graphic art, songs and poetry, evoking the vibrant folk culture of the IWW of the early 20th century.

The Practical Utopians

Published by EH.NET (March 2005)

Steven Leiken, The Practical Utopians: American Workers and the Cooperative Movement in the Gilded Age. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2005. xxi + 233 pp. $44.95 (cloth), ISBN: 0-8143-3128-9.

Reviewed for EH.NET by Ken Fones-Wolf, Department of History, West Virginia University.

Capitalism & Unemployment

Announcement: 2005 Kenny Prize Lecture, Thursday, May 5, 4pm

This year the Robert S. Kenny prize for outstanding work in the field of Marxist and labour/left studies has been awarded to Ann Porter for her book Gendered States: Women, Unemployment Insurance, and the Political Economy of the Welfare State in Canada, 1945, published by University of Toronto Press.

Workers Movements and Imperialism

The next meeting of the Tamiment Seminar will be on April 13 (6:30 -8:30 PM). David Montgomery (Yale University) will be presenting a paper "Workers Movements and Imperialism: From Berlin (1884) to Baku (1920) to Bandung (1955). Herrick Chapman (NYU) will comment.

The Tamiment Seminar is co-sponsored by the Labor and Working Class History Association

The Tamiment Library is located on 70 Washington Square South, 10th floor

To get a copy of David Montgomery's paper and rsvp for the seminar please contact , 212-998-2428

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