More than half a century ago the Wobblies tried in their own ways to grapple with issues that still plague the nation in a more sophisticated and properous era. In its heyday, between 19, the IWW nourished a dream of a better America where poverty-material and spiritual-would be erased and where all people, regardless of nationality or color, would walk free and equal. The present volume, an abridged version of this labor history classic, makes the compelling story of the IWW accessible to a new generation of readers.
While much has been written on aspects of the IWW's history in the past three decades, nothing has duplicated or surpassed this authoritative work. Originally published in 1969, Melvyn Dubofsky's We Shall Be All has remained the definitive archive-based history of the IWW. This is the classic history of the Industrial Workers of the World, the influential band of labor militants whose activism mobilized America's poorest and most marginalized workers in the years before World War I.
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