While the Industrial Workers of the World still is a going enterprise, the Marxists Internet Archive wanted to celebrate this organizations coming 100th Aniversary with a History Archive of documents related to it. We do not want to subsititute for the IWW’s own web site at iww.org. We want to compliment it with a mirror of it’s historical documents contained on it and our own additions from the current contents of the Marxists Internet Archive writers archive.
The Founding Convention of the IWW—Proceedings
The IWW by James P. Cannon
Works by Eugene V. Debs on the IWW:
The Coming Union (1905)
Revolutionary Unionism (1905)
Class Unionism (1905)
Industrial Unionism (1905)
Speech to the IWW Founding Convention (1905)
One Big Union W. E. Trautmann. (1911)
Historic Pamphlets by the Wobblies of the past:
Industrial Unionism: THE ROAD TO FREEDOM by Joseph J. Ettor(1913)
The Onward Sweep of the Machine Process By Nils H. Hanson (1913)
Jersey Justice at Work 1913
The Revolutionary I.W.W. by Grover Perty—1913
Contract Work 1917
Cut Down The Hours Of Work! (1919)
The Most Important Question by Justus Ebert (1919)
One Big Union! (1919)
The American Labor Year Book, 1919-20 by Alexander Trachtenberg, ed (1920)
The I. W. W.: What It Is and What It Is Not (1920)
With Drops of Blood Big Bill Haywood (1920)
Shop Organization the Base of the I. W. W. By George Hardy (1920)
How the I. W. W. is Organized By James Kennedy (1921)
An Economic Interpretation of the Job (1922)
Historical Catechism of American Unionism (1923)
The History of the I. W. W. A Discussion of its Main Features By a Group of Workmen (1923)
Building Construction
A Handbook of the Industry Issued By Building Construction Workers’ Industrial Union No. 330 Of The I. W. W. (1924)
One Big Union of the I.W.W. 1924
Education And System: The Basis Of Organization (1924)
Giant Industry and the I. W. W. Against the Concentrated Power Of Modern Big Business Put the Concentrated Power of Workers (1925)
“William D. Haywood—Soldier to the Last,” by James P. Cannon [May 22, 1928] A lengthy and heartfelt obituary of the IWW leader William “Big Bill” Haywood” by a friend and comrade, James P. Cannon, a Communist Party leader who was also a former member of the IWW.
25 Years of the Industrial Unionism by: Covington Hall, James P. Thompson, Roger N. Baldwin, Ralph Chaplin, C. E. Payne, Tom Connors, F. W. Thompson, Ed Delaney, Clifford B. Ellis, Joseph Wagner, John A. Gahan (1930)
Technocracy or Industrial Unionism (1933)
The I. W. W. In Theory And Practice (1938)
I. W. W. Manual Of Instruction For Job Delegates (Published by the General Recruiting Union, ca. 1943)
A Union For All Railroad Workers (1949)
Coal-Mine Workers and Their Industry (undated)
Delegates’ Work and Organization Bookkeeping (undated)
Why Building Workers Must Organize Into One Big Union! by Peo Monoldi (undated)
IWW and its relations with the Communist Party:
Open Letter from the Communist International to the IWW (1920)