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(IWW) radical international labor union founded in 1905. In its early history, its political radicalism and militant methods found it at odds with governments, business owners and the conservative trade unions, with literature at times banned as subversive materials. Despite this, the IWW managed to build a considerable cultural impact among workers through newspapers in many languages, political cartoons, songs, and literature ultimately written for, and by, workers.

This portal includes works published by, or about, groups within the IWW, plus those published by the "Detroit IWW" prior to its renaming in 1915. Each should be marked according to each work's specific publishing body, where possible.

Cited as publisher

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Title	Author	Year	Location	Notes
Why Strikes are Lost-How to Win	William E. Trautmann	1909	New York City	Pamphlet
Eleven Blind Leaders: or "tactical socialism" and "revolutionary tactics" from an I.W.W. standpoint	Benjamin H. Williams	c. 1910	New Castle, Pennsylvania	Pamphlet
The General Strike	William Dudley Haywood	c. 1911	Chicago	Pamphlet
"Don't be a Scab"		c. 1912	Lawrence, Massachusetts	Leaflet
Proletarian and Petit-Bourgeois	Austin Lewis	c. 1912	Chicago	Pamphlet
Patriotism and the Worker	Gustave Hervé	c. 1912	Chicago	Pamphlet
Industrial Unionism: the Road to Freedom	Joseph James Ettor	c. 1913	Chicago?	Pamphlet
The I. W. W.: Its History, Structure, and Methods	Vincent Saint John	1913	Cleveland	Pamphlet
Songs of the Workers ("Joe Hill Memorial" 9th ed.)	various authors	1916	Cleveland	Pamphlet
"To Arms!"		1916	Australia	Leaflet
The Advancing Proletariat: A Study of The Movement of The Working Class From Wage Slavery to Freedom	Abner E. Woodruff	1917	Chicago	Pamphlet
The Evolution of Industrial Democracy	Abner E. Woodruff	c. 1917		Pamphlet
The Onward Sweep of the Machine Process	Nils H. Hanson	c. 1917	Chicago	Pamphlet
Sabotage: The Conscious Withdrawal of The Workers' Industrial Efficiency	Elizabeth Gurley Flynn	1917	Chicago	Pamphlet
Shall Freedom Die?: 166 Union Men In Jail For Labor	Harrison George	c. 1917	Chicago	Pamphlet
When the Leaves Come Out	Ralph Hosea Chaplin	1917	Cleveland	Book
The Red Dawn: the Bolsheviki and the I.W.W.	Harrison George	c. 1918	Chicago	Pamphlet
Evolution of American Agriculture	Abner E. Woodruff	c. 1919		Book
Letter from F. H. Bohn to IWW members (March 30, 1919)	Frank H. Bohn	1919	Chicago	Letter
One Big Union of All the Workers, the Greatest Thing on Earth		c. 1919	Chicago	Pamphlet
Songs of the Workers (15th ed.)	various authors	1919	Chicago	Pamphlet
"The IWW Needs an Industrial Encyclopedia"	John Sandgren	1919	Chicago	Article
Songs of the Industrial Workers of the World (4th Australian ed.)	various authors	c. 1920	Melbourne, Australia	Pamphlet
"With drops of blood: the history of the Industrial Workers of the World has been written"	William Dudley Haywood	c. 1920	Chicago	Leaflet
Historical Catechism of American Unionism		c. 1923	Chicago	Book
"The I.W.W. and political parties"	Vincent Saint John	c. 1924	Chicago	Leaflet
Charter of the Seattle Branch of the Marine Transport Workers Industrial Union 510 of the Industrial Workers of the World, duplicate		c. 1925		Charter

Legal documents

Why the IWW Is Not Patriotic to the United States (Extract), 1918 by unknown author
Burns v. United States (274 U.S. 328), May 16, 1927
Fiske v. Kansas, May 16, 1927

IWW members

The following authors may or may not have been members at the time of authorship of their works, but are or were known to have been IWW members, or "Wobblies."

About

American Syndicalism: the I.W.W., 1913 by John Graham Brooks
"Industrial Workers of the World," in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
"Industrial Workers of the World," in Collier's New Encyclopedia, New York: P. F. Collier & Son Co. (1921)
"Industrial Workers of the World, The," in Encyclopædia Britannica (12th ed., 1922)
- "Trade Unions," by Margaret Isabel Cole, John Rogers Commons in Encyclopædia Britannica (12th ed., 1922)
- "Strikes and Lock-outs," by John Rogers Commons in Encyclopædia Britannica (12th ed., 1922) (section on United States)

Other

Speech to the IWW in 1905 by Lucy Parsons
Proclamation of the Striking Textile Workers of Lawrence, 1912
Songs of Love and Rebellion, 1915 by Covington Hall
"Joe Hill farewell letter to Elizabeth Gurley Flynn", September 30, 1915 by Joe Hill
"My Last Will", November 18, 1915 by Joe Hill
"Anarchists Demand Strike To End War" in The New York Times, May 19, 1917
"The I. W. W. Convention, by Mary Marcy, in The Liberator, Vol.2 No. 7, pp.10-12, July 1919
Constitution and laws of the One Big Union, 1919 (a separate but related union in Canada)
Plunder: a play, 1973 by Fredy Perlman