The Living Legacy of the IWW: Austin, Minnesota

Abstract

U.S. labor history has a somewhat peculiar geography. While we labor historians pay some attention to such cosmopolitan centers as New York City, Chicago, and San Francisco, we know that major chapters in the history of class struggle in this country were written in seemingly out of the way places like Butte, Montana, Bisbee, Arizona, Ludlow, Colorado, and Lawrence, Massachusetts. The history of the Industrial Workers of the World is not only bound up in such communities, but its legacy can be found there as well. In the following essay, I want to demonstrate the living character of this legacy and how it has provided a set of values, ideas, and strategies that has served generations of workers.

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