Always on Strike: Frank Little and the Western Wobblies

by Arnold Stead

Overview

Though widely recognized as one of the Industrial Workers of the World's leading members and one of its most prominent militants, this is the first book-length biography of Frank Little. Little's life offers innumerable lessons for working class people facing many of the same economic injustices in today's world.

Arnold Stead, PhD, is a poet, fiction writer, historian, playwright, and jazz and film critic. He lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with his wife and family.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781608462261
Publisher:	Haymarket Books
Publication date:	12/15/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	220
Sales rank:	723,400
File size:	499 KB

About the Author

A Ph.D. in English Literature (University of Missouri-Columbia ’93), Arnold Stead is a poet, fiction writer, historian, playwright, jazz and film critic. He lives in Minneapolis, MN with his wife and family.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1 – Western Wobblies

Chapter 2 – Free Speech Fights

Chapter 3 – Miners, Harvest&Oil

Chapter 4 – Urgency and Conspiracy

Chapter 5 – Haywood, Martyrdom and History

Afterward – Frank Little, Where are You?

Editorial Reviews

"Today, Frank Little gets remembered as another Wobbly martyr, overshadowed by folksinger and labor organizer Joe Hill. But as historian Irving Werstein wrote, "Next to Big Bill Haywood, Frank Little was the most vital leader of the IWW." Arnold Stead's short and engaging Always on Strike: Frank Little and the Western Wobblies aims to recover his mighty struggles and special boldness as object lessons for left-wingers organizing in the shadow of the Great Recession....'[I]n today's working class and left movement, which is only yet regaining the confidence to strike and struggle in isolated pockets, Stead's words hit the nail on the head. And so does Frank Little's story."
—Socialist Worker


"Today, Frank Little gets remembered as another Wobbly martyr, overshadowed by folksinger and labor organizer Joe Hill. But as historian Irving Werstein wrote, "Next to Big Bill Haywood, Frank Little was the most vital leader of the IWW." Arnold Stead's short and engaging Always on Strike: Frank Little and the Western Wobblies aims to recover his mighty struggles and special boldness as object lessons for left-wingers organizing in the shadow of the Great Recession....'[I]n today's working class and left movement, which is only yet regaining the confidence to strike and struggle in isolated pockets, Stead's words hit the nail on the head. And so does Frank Little's story."
—Socialist Worker

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