Wobblies

Apsken at aol.com Apsken at aol.com
Fri Mar 17 05:25:08 PST 2000


Elena asked,


> What does "wobblies" mean - politically?

Wobbly is colloquial for a member of the Industrial Workers of the World, the revolutionary union that stimulated working class insurgency, and particularly the culture of insurgency, in the United States from its founding in 1905 until the 1920s. The Charles H. Kerr Publishing Compaany in Chicago, which has published Marx in English since the late 19th century, is still in business, being the principal publisher of IWW and surrealist books also, whose proprietors are Wobblies and surrealists.

Ken Lawrence



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