The Industrial Workers of the World, whose members are nicknamed "Wobblies", is an international labor union founded in Chicago, Illinois, United States, in 1905. Its ideology combines general unionis
Big Bill Haywood and office workers in the IWW General Office, Chicago, summer 1917
A Wobbly membership card, or "red card"
1914 IWW demonstration in New York City
Workers being forcibly marched away from Bisbee into the desert
Syndicalism
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Syndicalism is a revolutionary socialist current within the broader labor movement that seeks to unionize workers according to industry and utilize these unions both as a means to advance their demand
Industrial Workers of the World
…industries which employ its members. The philosophy and tactics of the IWW are described as "revolutionary industrial unionism", with ties to socialist, syndicalist, and anarchist labor movements. In the 1910s and early 1920s, the IWW achieved many of its short-term goals, particularly in the American West, and cut…
French syndicalist leader Émile Pouget
Demonstration by the Argentine syndicalist union FORA in 1915
Syndicalist mayday in Stockholm, 2010
Meeting during the 1909 general strike in Sweden