Contents

Introduction

1   “Founded on the class struggle”:
The birth of the IWW

2   “Undesirable citizens”:
The attempt to lynch Bill Haywood

3   “Ignorant foreign labour”:
McKees Rocks, 1909

4   “Gurley Flynn will be the boss”:
Women workers and the IWW

5   “Hanging is none too good for them”:
IWW free speech campaigns

6   “The IWW has stood with the negro”:
The IWW and black workers

7   The IWW and the Mexican Revolution

8   Bread and roses

9   To fan the flames of discontent

10  Jim Connolly, Wobbly

11  The Battle for Butte

12  War and repression

13  George Hardy, Wobbly

14  The turn to Bolshevism

15  The road to Minneapolis, 1934

Further reading