Tom Barker and the Syndicalism of the Sea: The Underground Influence of the IWW.
Presented by Paula de Angelis on October 2012 at the NALHC, Detroit Michigan The Industrial Workers of the World, initially established in the US in 1905, were internationalist in practice as well as principle, and significant actors in the world-wide syndicalist movement of the early twentieth century. The IWW has rarely been examined as an international movement. Although it is widely acknowledged as a key aspect of IWW organising practices and revolutionary philosophy, the US based literature generally studies the local or national significance of international class solidarity. IWW scholarship produced outside of the United States, which of necessity discusses the international spread of the IWW, tends to be comparative rather than transnational, and to discuss the political and ideological, rather than the industrial, connections. 1 While the transnational history of the IWW has received some attention in recent years,...
