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The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW or the Wobblies) is an international union currently headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. At its peak in 1923 the organization claimed some 100,000 members in good standing, and could marshal the support of perhaps 300,000 workers. Its membership declined dramatically after a 1924 split brought on by internal conflict and government repression. Today it is actively organizing and numbers about 2000 members worldwide. IWW membership does not require that one works in a represented workplace, nor does it exclude membership in another labor union.
The IWW contends that all workers should be united within a single union as a class and the wage system abolished. They may be best known for the Wobbly Shop model of workplace democracy, in which workers elect recallable delegates, and other norms of grassroots democracy (self-management) are implemented.
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I.W.W. 'Wobblies' at Spirit of America - Information and links about the Industrial Workers of the World labor union, formed in 1905.
Meta Description: [ Info & links about the Industrial Workers of the World labor union, formed in 1905 and recently restoring the power it once held in American & international struggles to increase labor's value in the commercial marketplace. ]
Industrial Workers of the World - The main web page of the wobblies: includes the preamble of the IWW constitution, a listing of sub-unions, and news. Available in multiple languages.
Rebel Graphics - Posters and other content for the Industrial Workers of the World, and for the anti-globalization and anti-war movements, courtesy of the Denver/Boulder General Membership Branch, I.W.W.
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The Bisbee Deportation - Short historical account (with picture) of the 1917 labor dispute between copper mining companies and the IWW.
The General Strike for Industrial Freedom - Expresses philosophy of Industrial Workers of the World.
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