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Industrial unionism

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Political Movement
Alternative Names
  • New unionism

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Industrial unionism is the late nineteenth phenomenon which saw the union movement reach out to workers previously unrepresented by craft unions. Rather than workers organising by the craft they practiced, they instead organised on the basis of the industry in which they were employed.

Influenced by socialist thought, industrial unionism provided mass organisation of unskilled workers, transforming the trade union movement.

Resources

Books

  • Industrial Workers of the World: Preamble and Constitution, Industrial Workers of the World, Chicago, 1908. Image PDF Details
  • The Unity Question: Report of Debate between E. E. Judd (S.L.P.) & A. S. Reardon (A.S.P.), Socialist Labour Party of Australia, Sydney, 1917. Image PDF Details
  • Workers' International Industrial Union: Constitution and Preamble, Workers' International Industrial Union, Sydney, 1917. Image PDF Details
  • The Little Green Book: The Facts On Green Bans, Tomato Press, Sydney, 1974?. Image PDF Details
  • One Big Union, 8th edn, Industrial Workers of the World, Philadelphia, 2001. Image PDF Details
  • Fanning Discontent's Flames: Australian Wobbly Poetry, Scurrilous Doggerel, and Song. 1914 - 2007, Industrial Workers of the World, Albany, March 2007. Image PDF Details
  • "Joe the Bear", Job Control, Workers' International Industrial Union & The Socialist Labor Party, Adelaide, 1928. Image PDF Details
  • Anderson, Norman C., One Big Union For Australia, Will Andrade, Melbourne, 1922. Image PDF Details
  • Scott, Bon & Gary David (eds.), How to Make Trouble and Influence People: A Compilation of Australian pranks, hoaxes and political mischief making, Political Hooligan Publications, Sydney, 1996. Image PDF Details
  • Spence, William Guthrie, The ethics of new unionism, Martin and Grose, Creswick, 1892, 10 pp. Image PDF Details
  • The Question Mark Collective, How to Stop Whining and Start Living, Scam Publications, Melbourne, 1998. Image PDF Details

Fliers

  • Seamen Again Betrayed, Socialist Labour Party of Australia, Sydney, 1936. Image PDF Details
  • Rank and File News Collective Invite you to a New Year's Eve Solidarity Party on the Picket, Rank and File News Collective, Melbourne, December 1998. Image PDF Details
  • Borders Workers Need a Union, Industrial Workers of the World, Melbourne, 1998?. Image PDF Details

Journals

  • International Socalist, no. 8, International Socialists, Melbourne, Autumn 1979. Image PDF Details

Journal Articles

  • Gollan, R. A., 'Labor History', Bulletin, no. 1, January, 1962. Image PDF Details

Newsletters

  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, Industrial Workers of the World, Melbourne, Winter 1998. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, Industrial Workers of the World, Melbourne, Summer 98/99. Image PDF Details
  • Workers Solidarity: Publication of the Melbourne IWW, Industrial Workers of the World, Melbourne, August 1999. Image PDF Details
  • Workers Solidarity: Publication of the Melbourne IWW, Industrial Workers of the World, Melbourne, April 1999. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 4, Industrial Workers of the World, Autumn 1999. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 4, Industrial Workers of the World, Winter 1999. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 4, Industrial Workers of the World, Summer 99/2000. Image PDF Details
  • Ovaries Forever: IWW Sister Workers Newsletter 1999-2000, Industrial Workers of the World, 1999. Image PDF Details
  • Workers Solidarity: Publication of the Melbourne IWW, Industrial Workers of the World, Melbourne, May 2000. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, Industrial Workers of the World, Autumn 2000. Image PDF Details
  • About Time, Industrial Workers of the World, Albany, May-June 2008. Image PDF Details
  • About Time, Industrial Workers of the World, Albany, March 2008. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, Industrial Workers of the World, 2008. Image PDF Details

Newspapers

  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 1, no. 17, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, November 15, 1914. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 1, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, November 1, 1914. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 1, no. 11, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, August 10, 1914. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 1, no. 12, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, August 22, 1914. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 1, no. 9, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, July 15, 1914. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 1, no. 6, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, June 1, 1914. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 1, no. 5, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, May 15, 1914. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 1, no. 10, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, August 1, 1914. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 1, no. 14, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, October 1, 1914. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 2, no. 28, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, May 1, 1915. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 2, no. 44, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, November 6, 1915. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 2, no. 43, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, October 30, 1915. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 2, no. 41, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, October 16, 1915. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 2, no. 42, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, October 23, 1915. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 2, no. 39, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, October 2, 1915. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 2, no. 38, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, October 1, 1915. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 2, no. 35, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, August 15, 1915. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 2, no. 34, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, August 1, 1915. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 2, no. 31, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, June 15, 1915. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 2, no. 26, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, April 1, 1915. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 2, no. 25, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, March 15, 1915. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 2, no. 24, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, March 1, 1915. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 2, no. 23, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, February 15, 1915. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 2, no. 47, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, November 27, 1915. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 2, no. 33, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, July 15, 1915. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 2, no. 49, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, December 11, 1915. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 2, no. 50, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, December 18, 1915. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 2, no. 40, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, October 9, 1915. image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 2, no. 51, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, December 25, 1915. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 2, no. 48, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, December 4, 1915. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 3, no. 99, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, December 9, 1916. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 3, no. 102, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, December 30, 1916. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 3, no. 100, Industrial Workers of the World, Sydney, December 16, 1916. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 3, no. 98, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, December 2, 1916. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 3, no. 97, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, November 18, 1916. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 3, no. 96, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, November 11, 1916. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 3, no. 95, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, November 4, 1916. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 3, no. 94, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, October 28, 1916. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 2, no. 53, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, January 15, 1916. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 2, no. 58, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, February 19, 1916. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 2, no. 57, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, February 12, 1916. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 2, no. 56, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, February 5, 1916. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 2, no. 55, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, January 29, 1916. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 2, no. 54, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, January 22, 1916. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 3, no. 101, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, December 23, 1916. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 2, no. 52, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, January 8, 1916. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 3, no. 93, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, October 21, 1916. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 4, no. 122, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, May 19, 1917. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 4, no. 129, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, July 7, 1917. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 4, no. 121, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, May 12, 1917. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 4, no. 120, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, May 5, 1917. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 4, no. 118, Industrial Workers of the World, Sydney, April 21, 1917. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 4, no. 126, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, June 16, 1917. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 4, no. 117, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, April 14, 1917. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 4, no. 119, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, April 28, 1917. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 4, no. 131, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, August 4, 1917. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 4, no. 123, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, May 26, 1917. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 4, no. 125, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, June 9, 1917. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 4, no. 127, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, June 23, 1917. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 4, no. 131, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, July 21, 1917. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 4, no. 128, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, June 30, 1917. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 4, no. 116, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, April 7, 1917. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 4, no. 107, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, February 3, 1917. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 4, no. 124, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, June 2, 1917. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 4, no. 130, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, July 14, 1917. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 3, no. 103, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, January 6, 1917. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 3, no. 104, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, January 13, 1917. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 3, no. 105, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, January 20, 1917. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 3, no. 106, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, January 27, 1917. image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 4, no. 109, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, February 17, 1917. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 4, no. 108, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, February 10, 1917. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 4, no. 115, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, March 24, 1917. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: An Organ of Industrial Unionism, vol. 1, no. 1, Industrial Union Propaganda League [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, December 1, 1921. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 4, no. 110, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, February 24, 1917. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 4, no. 111, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, March 3, 1917. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 4, no. 112, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, March 10, 1917. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 4, no. 135, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, August 18, 1917. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 4, no. 113, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, March 17, 1917. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 4, no. 114, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, March 24, 1917. Image PDF Details
  • Direct Action: An Organ of Industrial Unionism, vol. 1, no. 3, Industrial Union Propaganda League [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, February, 1922. Image PDF Details
  • Tribune, no. 1698, March 31, 1971. Image PDF Details

Pamphlets

  • Industrial Union Propaganda League, Tom Glynn, Industrial Union Propaganda League, 1921. Image PDF Details
  • 35 Hours: More Jobs, More Leisure, Amalgamated Metal Workers & Shipwrights Union, Sydney, 1980. Image PDF Details
  • The Crabb Papers, Citizens For Democracy, October 1986. Image PDF Details
  • Dissenterlink Update: Linking Social Security Recipients, Industrial Workers of the World, Melbourne, 199?. Image PDF Details
  • Fry, E. C. (ed.), Tom Barker and the I.W.W., Industrial Workers of the World, Brisbane, 1999. Image PDF Details
  • Glyn, Tom, Industrial Efficency and its Antidote, Solidarity Pamphlets - Mental Dynamite Series, Industrial Workers of the World, Albany, 2006. Image PDF Details
  • Miller, Montague, The Passing of Parliament, Solidarity Pamphlets - Mental Dynamite Series, Industrial Workers of the World, Albany, 2006. Image PDF Details

Created: 3 November 2004, Last modified: 21 June 2006