Peter Cole is a professor of history at Western Illinois University.

"Cole skillfully integrates material from IWW leaders, government documents, newspaper accounts, and oral histories with secondary literature to produce a superb case study, one that should appeal to anyone interested in the IWW, the intersection of work and race, waterfront work, or race relations in the United States during the World War I period."--H-Urban"Cole's richly detailed book provides a glimpse at a topic too often ignored, the local IWW. . . . Wobblies on the Waterfront deserves to be read seriously by labor historians and historians interested in race and social justice movements. . . . This remarkable book provides a sense of what the Wobblies might have become if given a chance."--Journal of American History"An invaluable resource to those interested broadly in the historiography of race and industrial unionism and more specifically in Local 8 itself. . . . A worthwhile contribution to the literature and an inspiration to those of us who hold out hope for a unified labor movement."--Labor History

• Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: In Search of Local 8 1. Philadelphia: "The Graveyard of Unionism"A 2. Wobblies Take the Docks 3. There Is Power in a Union 4. War on the Waterfront 5. Onward One Big Union? 6. Riding the Wave of Postwar Militancy: the 1920 Strike 7. The Philadelphia Controversy 8. Quakertown Blues: The Lockout of 1922 Conclusion: Towards Radical Egalitarianism Notes Bibliography Index

Peter Cole is a professor of history at Western Illinois University.

"Cole skillfully integrates material from IWW leaders, government documents, newspaper accounts, and oral histories with secondary literature to produce a superb case study, one that should appeal to anyone interested in the IWW, the intersection of work and race, waterfront work, or race relations in the United States during the World War I period."--H-Urban"Cole's richly detailed book provides a glimpse at a topic too often ignored, the local IWW. . . . Wobblies on the Waterfront deserves to be read seriously by labor historians and historians interested in race and social justice movements. . . . This remarkable book provides a sense of what the Wobblies might have become if given a chance."--Journal of American History"An invaluable resource to those interested broadly in the historiography of race and industrial unionism and more specifically in Local 8 itself. . . . A worthwhile contribution to the literature and an inspiration to those of us who hold out hope for a unified labor movement."--Labor History

• Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: In Search of Local 8 1. Philadelphia: "The Graveyard of Unionism"A 2. Wobblies Take the Docks 3. There Is Power in a Union 4. War on the Waterfront 5. Onward One Big Union? 6. Riding the Wave of Postwar Militancy: the 1920 Strike 7. The Philadelphia Controversy 8. Quakertown Blues: The Lockout of 1922 Conclusion: Towards Radical Egalitarianism Notes Bibliography Index

Peter Cole is a professor of history at Western Illinois University.

"Cole skillfully integrates material from IWW leaders, government documents, newspaper accounts, and oral histories with secondary literature to produce a superb case study, one that should appeal to anyone interested in the IWW, the intersection of work and race, waterfront work, or race relations in the United States during the World War I period."--H-Urban"Cole's richly detailed book provides a glimpse at a topic too often ignored, the local IWW. . . . Wobblies on the Waterfront deserves to be read seriously by labor historians and historians interested in race and social justice movements. . . . This remarkable book provides a sense of what the Wobblies might have become if given a chance."--Journal of American History"An invaluable resource to those interested broadly in the historiography of race and industrial unionism and more specifically in Local 8 itself. . . . A worthwhile contribution to the literature and an inspiration to those of us who hold out hope for a unified labor movement."--Labor History

• Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: In Search of Local 8 1. Philadelphia: "The Graveyard of Unionism"A 2. Wobblies Take the Docks 3. There Is Power in a Union 4. War on the Waterfront 5. Onward One Big Union? 6. Riding the Wave of Postwar Militancy: the 1920 Strike 7. The Philadelphia Controversy 8. Quakertown Blues: The Lockout of 1922 Conclusion: Towards Radical Egalitarianism Notes Bibliography Index