| PAGE |
| Preface to the Second Edition | 5 |
| Preface to the First Edition | 7 |
| Part I |
| BEGINNINGS |
| CHAPTER I |
| Forerunners of the "Wobblies" |
| Early revolutionary bodies | 27 |
| English prototypes | 29 |
| Early radical unions in the United States | 29 |
| The National Labor Union | 30 |
| The Knights of Labor | 30 |
| The Internationals | 35 |
| The Sovereigns of Industry | 37 |
| The United Brewery Workmen | 38 |
| The United Mine Workers of America | 38 |
| Haymarket | 39 |
| The American Railway Union | 40 |
| The Western Federation of Miners | 40 |
| W. F. M. strikes | 40 |
| The Western Labor Union | 43 |
| The American Labor Union | 44 |
| The Socialist Labor Party and the Socialist Trade and Labor Alliance | 46 |
| The French ConfÉdÉration GÉnÉrale du Travail | 53 |
| CHAPTER II |
| The Birth of the I. W. W. |
| Pre-convention conferences | 57 |
| The rÔle of the Western Federation of Miners | 60 |
| The January Conference | 61 |
| The Industrialist Manifesto | 62 |
| Attitude of the A. F. of L. | 65 |
| The Industrial Union Convention and the launching of the I. W. W. | 67 |
| Character of industries and unions represented | 68 |
| Numerical predominance of the Western Federation and the American Labor Union | 71 |
| Daniel DeLeon and the Socialist Trade and Labor Alliance | 75 |
| Doctrinal elements represented in the convention: reformist, direct-actionist and doctrinaire | 76 |
| The dominant personalities | 79 |
| CHAPTER III |
| The I. W. W. versus the A. F. of L. |
| Attitude of the revolutionary industrialists toward the Federation. | 83 |
| Critique of craft unionism | 84 |
| "Union scabbery" and the aristocracy of labor | 85 |
| Emphasis on the unskilled and unorganized | 87 |
| The "pure and simple" union and the "labor lieutenant" | 88 |
| Repudiation of the policy of "boring from within" | 89 |
| Convention resolutions | 91 |
| The preamble and the clause on political action | 92 |
| The attitude of DeLeon and the S. L. P | 93 |
| The I. W. W. Constitution | 272 |
| The I. W. W. and the French syndicalists | 273 |
| International labor politics | 275 |
| The Syndicalist League of North America | 276 |
| The I. W. W. and the MacNamara case | 277 |
| Franco-American sabotage | 278 |
| Demonstration against sabotage at the 1912 convention of the Socialist party | 280 |
| Article II, section 6 | 280 |
| CHAPTER XII |
| Lawrence and the Crest of Power |
| Strike activities in 1912 | 283 |
| The Lawrence strike | 284 |
| The use of violence at Lawrence and the responsibility for it | 286 |
| Dynamite planting | 288 |
| The I. W. W. and the A. F. of L. at Lawrence | 289 |
| Results of the strike | 290 |
| I. W. W. patriotism and I. W. W. morals | 293 |
| The 1912 convention | 295 |
| The beginning of the conflict over decentralization | 297 |
| CHAPTER XIII |
| Dual Unionism and Decentralization |
| The policy of "boring from within" | 299 |
| Dual unionism | 299 |
| An I. W. W. defense of "boring from within" | 300 |
| Tom Mann joins in the attack on dual unionism | 303 |
| Rejoinders from Ettor and Haywood | 303 |
| The 1913 convention | 305 |
| Centralization versus decentralization | 305 |
| The proposals of the "decentralizers" | 306 |
| The relation of the locals to the general organization | 307 |
| The Pacific Coast District Organization | 311 |
| The East against the West in the decentralization debate | 313 |
| The western Wobbly and the eastern | 314 |
| Geographical differences in I. W. W. local unions | 315 |
| An anarchist's impressions of the 1913 convention | 318 |
| CHAPTER XIV |
| Recent Tendencies |
| Continued hostility between the I. W. W. and the Western Federation of Miners | 320 |
| The labor war in Butte, Montana | 321 |
| The United Mine Workers and the I. W. W | 325 |
| The 1914 convention | 327 |
| The I. W. W. and the unemployed | 329 |
| The resolution against war | 331 |
| Constitutional changes | 331 |
| Time agreements | 332 |
| Growth in membership | 333 |
| The slump in 1914-1915 | 335 |
| Revival of activity | |
