Debate on 'direct unionism'

Debate on 'direct unionism'

Collection of letters, articles and responses mostly from the IWW's Industrial Worker around the 'Direct Unionism' discussion paper.

Previous entries on this debate include:
-Direct Unionism: A Discussion Paper
-A response to 'Direct Unionism: A Discussion Paper' Parts 1 & 2
-A member of Black Orchid Collective's 'Response to “Direct Unionism: A Discussion Paper”'
-Counterpoint: Response To Juan Conatz’s Take On “Direct Unionism”

Comments

Chilli Sauce
Dec 2 2011 08:00

Thanks for posting these up (Juan, I presume).

Ed
Dec 2 2011 10:41

Yeah, cheers.. I'm feeling a bit ill and just read it all. Really good stuff!

Inhousejoke
Dec 2 2011 12:58

Cool stuff, might be worth adding the original paper up there too?

http://libcom.org/library/direct-unionism-discussion-paper-09052011

Nate
Dec 7 2011 20:10

Just wanted to say thanks to Juan for getting the initial ball rolling of conversation in print about the direct unionism discussion paper and Chili for pushing folk to write letters on this. Aside from the contents of the debate, I've been pleased to see back and forth about vision and values in the Industrial Worker like this.

klas batalo
May 26 2016 21:37

so i always found trying to follow this debate was very hard because how this was formatted, so i'm not sure if i ever read all of these pieces even. so here they all are in order:

https://libcom.org/blog/response-direct-unionism-discussion-paper-part-1-2-15052011
https://libcom.org/blog/response-direct-unionism-discussion-paper-part-2-2-20052011
https://libcom.org/library/response-%E2%80%9Cdirect-unionism-discussion-paper%E2%80%9D
https://libcom.org/library/counterpoint-response-juan-conatz%E2%80%99s-take-%E2%80%9Cdirect-unionism%E2%80%9D
https://libcom.org/library/response-critique-%E2%80%9Cdirect-unionism%E2%80%9D
https://libcom.org/library/contracts-iww
https://libcom.org/library/debate-collective-bargaining-iww
https://libcom.org/library/letter-staughton-lynd-concerning-direct-unionism
https://libcom.org/library/direct-unionism-practice-undermining-service-industry-barriers-worker-solidarity
https://libcom.org/blog/developing-iww%E2%80%99s-direct-unionism-politics-07032013
https://libcom.org/library/direct-unionism

Juan Conatz
May 26 2016 22:50

Hmm. Actually I'm pretty sure the way this is organized is all in order. I'll check later.

EDIT: yeah, Klas, the order that it is in is the correct one and based off when each article was published or posted. Your order is incorrect as it changes the order of Lynd's reply (doesn't really make a difference either way) and puts my final reply before John O'Reilly's, even though I refer to his.

klas batalo
May 27 2016 02:12
Juan Conatz wrote:
Hmm. Actually I'm pretty sure the way this is organized is all in order. I'll check later.

EDIT: yeah, Klas, the order that it is in is the correct one and based off when each article was published or posted. Your order is incorrect as it changes the order of Lynd's reply (doesn't really make a difference either way) and puts my final reply before John O'Reilly's, even though I refer to his.

okay weird. i also think maybe not all the articles are actually linked. hmm. well good to know. grin

Juan Conatz
May 27 2016 02:25

As far as I'm aware, these are all the articles that are direct replies to the discussion paper. Are you aware of others? I know that that 'Wobblyism' mentions and assesses direct unionism, but it's more its own thing.