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Following the first fire brigade strike of 2013 over proposed pension changes, a short look at how injury and incapacity unites all manual workers.
A summary of the University of Washington's microfilm collection of the Industrial Worker newspaper.
A critique of the role of prison treatment programs by an anarchist and ex-prisoner.
In fact, the Industrial Workers of the World is the only labor federation in the history of the American labor movement which never established a single segregated local.The libcom library contains nearly 20,000 articles. If it's your first time on the site, or you're looking for something specific, it can be difficult to know where to start. Luckily, there's a range of ways you can filter the library content to suit your needs, from casual browsing to researching a particular topic. Click here for the guide.
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