Joe Hill: The Iww & the Making of a Revolutionary Workingclass Counterculture

Biography. This throrough biography chronicles the life and revolutionary ideas ofJoe Hill, the best-known figure in the heroic history of the Industrial Workers of the World (a.k.a. Wobblies). Unlike previous biographies, Franklin Rosemont's book sheds new light on the crime Hill was framed for and [...]
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Biography. This throrough biography chronicles the life and revolutionary ideas ofJoe Hill, the best-known figure in the heroic history of the Industrial Workers of the World (a.k.a. Wobblies). Unlike previous biographies, Franklin Rosemont's book sheds new light on the crime Hill was framed for and his martyrdom, but focuses overall on Hill's ideas and actvity. Here we see Hill as a songwriter, poet, artist, hobo, thinker, humorist, and archetypal rank-and-file-Wobbly.