PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION

PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION

CONTENTS

PART I BEGINNINGS

CHAPTER I Forerunners of the I. W. W.

CHAPTER II The Birth of the Organization [78] -1905

CHAPTER III The I. W. W. versus the A. F. of L.

PART II THE "ORIGINAL" I. W. W.

CHAPTER IV Maiden Efforts on the Economic Field

CHAPTER V The Coup of the "Proletarian Rabble" -1906

CHAPTER VI The Structure of a Militant Union

CHAPTER VII The Fight for Existence

CHAPTER VIII "Job Control" at Goldfield

CHAPTER IX Doctrinaire versus Direct-Actionist -1908

CHAPTER X The I. W. W. on the "Civilized Plane" (1908-1915)

PART III THE DIRECT-ACTIONISTS

CHAPTER XI Free Speech and Sabotage

CHAPTER XII Lawrence and the Crest of Power -1912

CHAPTER XIII Dual Unionism and Decentralization

CHAPTER XIV Recent Tendencies

APPENDIX I First I. W. W. Classification of the Industrial

APPENDIX II The I. W. W. Preamble [724] A. CHICAGO

APPENDIX III Structural Organization of the I. W. W. [726] -1917

APPENDIX IV. Membership Statistics. TABLE A. Membership

APPENDIX V. Local Unions of the I. W. W. Chicago and Detroit, 1914 [740]

APPENDIX VI Reasons for Locals Disbanding [741] (Aug. 31, 1910 to Sept. 1, 1911)

APPENDIX VII Free Speech Fights of the I. W. W. (Partial list.)

APPENDIX VIII Partial List of Strikes Managed or Participated in by the I. W. W.

APPENDIX IX Selections from the I. W. W. Song Book [742] Are You a Wobbly?

APPENDIX X Copies of State "Criminal Syndicalism" Statutes MINNESOTA

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Studies in History, Economics and Public Law

STUDIES IN HISTORY, ECONOMICS AND PUBLIC LAW

EDITED BY THE FACULTY OF POLITICAL SCIENCE
OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

Volume LXXXIII] [Whole Number 193

THE I. W. W.
A Study of American Syndicalism

BY

PAUL FREDERICK BRISSENDEN, Ph.D.
Sometime Assistant in Economics at the University of California and University Fellow at Columbia
Special Agent of the United States Department of Labor

SECOND EDITION

Copyright, 1920
BY
PAUL FREDERICK BRISSENDEN

TO
R. O. L. B.

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