The legacy of the IWW.(Industrial Workers of the World )

From: Monthly Review | Date: June 1, 2005| Author: Buhle, Paul | Copyright information

This year marks the centenary of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), American labor's unique visionaries. It also marks the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the AFL-CIO, the result of the merger of the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organization. Remarkably it is also the tenth anniversary of the change of the guard at the AFL-CIO. In 1995, John Sweeney and his "New Voice" team, expressing the rumblings of disillusionment with then-preside...

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