Labor-Related Organizations - Industrial Workers of the World, Worker Cooperative, Working Men's College, Jewish Council on Urban Affairs (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 42. Chapters: Industrial Workers of the World, Worker cooperative, Working Men's College, Jewish Council on Urban Affairs, Chinese Hand Laundry Alliance, Union of Russian Workers, Fishermen's Protective Union, Social Accountability International, United States House Committee on Education and the Workforce, Workers' council, Visayan Forum Foundation, Evatt Foundation, Gangmasters Licensing Authority, United States Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, Labour council, International Collective in Support of Fishworkers, Workers' Awaaz, Barnet Trades Union Council, Via Campesina, Greater London Association of Trade Union Councils, South Indian Federation of Fishermen Societies, Delta Board Council, National Labor Union, Catholic Radical Alliance, Fishermen's Union Trading Co., Winnipeg Labour Council, The National Association of Women in Construction, Workplace Fairness, Labour Church, Temporary Labour Working Group, Union flying squad, Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educacion, Battersea and Wandsworth TUC, LaborNet, Labor Age, National Independent Contractors Association, Brantford and District Labour Council, Early Closing Association. Excerpt: The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW or the Wobblies) is an international union. At its peak in 1923, the organization claimed some 100,000 members in good standing, and could marshal the support of perhaps 300,000 workers. Its membership declined dramatically after a 1924 split brought on by internal conflict. IWW membership does not require that one work in a represented workplace, nor does it exclude membership in another labor union. The IWW contends that all workers should be united as a class and that the wage system should be abolished. They may be best known for the Wobbly Shop model of workplace democracy, in which workers elect recallable delega...