Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)

Ordered chronologically, and then alpha by author:

• (Current) Preamble to the IWW Constitution

1900s

• Industrial Union Manifesto - By the Conference of Industrial Unionists, January 2, 3 and 4, 1905.
• Minutes of the IWW Founding Convention - Recorded Friday June 27 through Saturday July 8th, 1905.
• Are Class Interests Identical?: A Synopsis of the Aims and Objects of the Industrial Workers of the World - By Lucy Parsons, The Liberator, September 3, 1905.
• Industrial Workers of the World: Aims and Objects - By Lucy Parsons, The Liberator, November 22, 1907.

1910s

• Socialism and Primitive Christianity (PDF) - By William Thurston Brown, ca 1910.
• One Big Union - By W. E. Trautmann, 1911.
• Industrial Socialism - By Big Bill Haywood and Frank Bohn, July 1911.
• Why Strikes are Lost & How to Win - By W. E. Trautmann, 1912.
• "Jersey Justice" at Work - By the IWW, 1913.
• Industrial Unionism: The Road to Freedom - By Joseph Ettor, June 1913.
• Sabotage - By Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, October 1916.
• Helen Keller: Why I became an IWW - An Interview, written by Barbara Bindley, New York Tribune, January 15, 1916
• Letter from Jane Street to Mrs. Elmer S Bruse - By Jane Street, 1917.
• The IWW - its History, Structure and Methods - By Vincent St John, 1917.
• Sabotage: Its History, Philosophy & Function - By Walker C Smith, 1917.
• The Everett Massacre: A History of the Class Struggle in the Lumber Industry - By Walker C Smith, 1917.
• The Truth about the I. W. W.: Facts in relation to the trial at Chicago by competent industrial investigators and noted economists (PDF) - By the National Civil Liberties Bureau, March 1918.
• The IWW: A Study in American Syndicalism (PDF) - By Paul Brissenden, 1919.
• The Centralia Conspiracy - By Ralph Chaplin, 1919.
• What is the IWW and What Does it Want? - By Justus Ebert, 1919.

1920s

• Justice and the IWW (PDF) - By Paul Brissenden, 1920.
• The General Strike - By Ralph Chaplin, 1920.
• The IWW in the Lumber Industry - By James Rowan, 1920.
• How An Industrial Union Works - By Giovanni Baldazzi, Class War Prisoner No. 13,116, One Big Union Monthly, February 1920
• Chilean IWW Under the "White Terror" of Chilean Bourgeoisie - By The Chilean I.W.W. and Anarchists of Chile, One Big Union Monthly, September 28, 1920.
• The One Big Union of Canada - By P. G. Anderson & C. B. Currie, One Big Union Monthly, December 1920
• "High Spots" of the 13th IWW Convention (Part 1) - By Roy Brown, Industrial Pioneer, June 1921, pages 50 to 56, inclusive. Published by the Industrial Workers of the World
• "High Spots" of the 13th IWW Convention (Part 2) - By Roy Brown, Industrial Pioneer, July 1921, pages 38 to 42, inclusive. Published by the Industrial Workers of the World
• The Work Peoples' College - By Rosa Knuuti, Industrial Pioneer, October 1921
• The IWW Reply to the Red Trade Union International - By Arthur Boose, H. G. Clarke, J.Johnson, Joe Miller, T. C. Smith, Norman Weir, and E. W. Latchem, November 15, 1922.
• An Economic Interpretation of the Job - By the Department of Education of Agricultural Workers Industrial Union No. 110 of The Industrial Workers of the World, 1922.
• Exposed! - Marine Transport Workers Industrial Union of the I. W. W. Replies to Accusations Made Against It by Andrew Furuseth - By the Marine Transport Workers Industrial Union No. 510 of the I. W. W., 1922.
• The Lumber Industry and Its Workers - By James Kennedy, 1922.
• Cut Down The Hours Of Work! - By the IWW, 1923.
• Coal-Mine Workers and Their Industry - By the Education Bureau of the IWW for the Coal Mine Workers Industrial Union 220, 1923.
• The Historical Catechism of American Unionism - By the IWW, 1923.
• Education and System: The Basis of Organization - By the IWW, 1924
• The I.W.W. and Political Parties - By Vincent St John, 1924.
• Giant Industry and the I. W. W.: Against the Concentrated Power Of Modern Big Business Put the Concentrated Power of Workers - By the IWW, 1925.
• The Autobiography of Mother Jones - By Mary Harris "Mother" Jones, 1925
• Lumber Workers - You Need Organization! - By the IWW, 1927.
• The I. W. W. - What It Is And What It Is Not - By the IWW, 1928.

1930s

• So You’re Our of a Job? (PDF) - By the IWW, 1933.
• Unemployment and the Machine - By the IWW, 1934.
• General Bylaws of the Lumber Workers Industrial Union 120 of the I.W.W. - As amended by referendum, February 1936

1940s

• Chicago Replies to Moscow - Letter from the Editor, Industrial Worker, January 27, 1945
• A Union For All Railroad Workers - IWW Railroad Workers Industrial Union 510, 1949.

1950s

• The IWW - By James P. Cannon, Fourth International, Summer 1955.

1960s

• Lumberjack - By Tom Scribbner, IWW, 1966.
• The Wobblies: The Story of Syndicalism in the United States (PDF) - by Patrick Renshaw (1968)

1980s

• Ben Fletcher: portrait of a black syndicalist (PDF) - by Jeff Stein (Summer 1987)

1990s

• The IWW and Electoral Politics: An Historical Overview - By John Sillito, Industrial Worker, November 1991.
• If Voting Could Change Things ... The Labor Party Illusion - By Jon Bekken, Industrial Worker, November 1991.
• ...They'd Make it Illegal: The Green Party Illusion - by Jess Grant Industrial Worker, November 1991.
• The Brief Origins of May Day - by Eric Chase, 1993.
• A Short History of IWW Organizing in Ann Arbor 1981-1989 - By Mark Kauffmann, Libertarian Labor Review, Winter 1993.
• IWW Organizing in the 1970s - By Mike Hargis, Libertarian Labor Review #16, Winter 1994.
• A Memoir - Some Anarchist Activities in New York in the '30s and '40s - by Clara Freedman Solomon (PDF) - September 28, 1995.
• Authoritarian Leftists: Kill the Cop in Your Head - By Greg Jackson, Black Autonomy, April 1996.
• Politics vs. Syndicalism: a Case Study of the IWW - By Luther M. Gaylord, ca 1997.
• "Virile Syndicalism" in Comparative Perspective: a Gender Analysis of the IWW in the United States and Australia - By Francis Shor, Wayne State University, March 14, 1998.
• Marine Transport Workers Industrial Union, IWW, San Francisco Bay Ports Local #9: Declaration of Principles - August 17, 1998.
• Nothing in Common: An Oral History of IWW Strikes 1971-1992 (PDF) - edited by John Silvano, 1999.
• A Brief History of the IWW Outside the United States of America - by FN Brill, 1999.
• Reply to the De Leonist Society of Canada - By Frank Girard, editor Discussion Bulletin, Nov-Dec 1999 #98, pages 26-29

2000-09

• Arguments For a Four-Hour Day - By Jon Bekken, 2000
• The IWW, Revolutionary Syndicalism, and Working Class Struggle in South Africa, 1910-1921(PDF) - by Lucien van der Walt, ca 2000
• Plates on the Roof: IU640 Stories of Radical Hotel and Restaurant Workers - By the IWW, 2001.
• The Coalition of Immokalee Workers and the IWW - by Rob Augman, May 12, 2001.
• IWW Organizing Manual; Second Edition (PDF) - IWW, 2002.
• Less Time for Work, More Time for Life! - By Jon Bekken, Industrial Worker, June 2002.
• Will We Lose the 8-hour Day? - Congress considers 80-hour weeks while Labor Department guts overtime rules - By Jon Bekken, Industrial Worker, May 2003.
• A Fight for Free Speech in San Diego - By Davey Jones, San Diego Indymedia, January 21, 2005.
• The IWW: Its First 100 Years - by Harry Siitonen, March 2005.
• Industrial Unionism: The History of the IWW in Aotearoa & Aim, Form, and Tactics of a Workers’ Union on I.W.W. Lines (PDF) - Various Authors, 2006
• The First Globalisation and Transnational Labour Activism in Southern Africa: White Labourism, the IWW, and the ICU, 1904–1934 (PDF) - By Lucien van der Walt, 2007

2010s

• Business Unionism vs. Revolutionary Unionism - by Dave Neal, 2011.
• How the IWW can contribute to Working Class Revolution - by Phinneas Gage, 2011.
• Two Concepts For IWW Organizing: Industrial Unionism And One Big Unionism - by John O’Reilly and Nate Hawthorne, June 2011.
• The general strike that didn't happen: a report on the activity of the IWW in Wisconsin - By Juan Conatz and Brendan Sawyers, September 2011.
• 'We Are All Leaders' : Anarchism and the Narrative of the Industrial Workers of the World - By Jonathan A. Christiansen, March 2012.
• (Answers to) Some Objections To Occupy May 1st - By Jonathan A. Christiansen, April 23, 2012.
• IWW Marine Transport Workers Local 8: Black lives mattered in this long-forgotten interracial union - By Peter Cole, Fifth Estate, Summer 2018.

2020s

• Lying for Leninism: An analysis of G. Zinoviev’s letter to the I.W.W. - By Ian McKay, The Anarchist Library, August 2, 2020.

Last Updated - October 28, 2026.