Iww organizing manual

This second edition of the IWW’s Organizing Manual builds upon the First Edition, published in This edition was published in May , after a draft was circulated to the entire IWW membership for comments. It is a collective product, incorporating large sections of the edition, and suggestions from dozens of Wobblies. Chicago: Industrial Workers of the World, General Administration, Pamphlet. 22, [i]p., wraps, mimeographed, some staining in the margins else good condition, x11 inches, stamp of the Portland, Oregon IWW on the last page. First draft of this man. IWW Forum (InterWob) Red Card. IWW Education Department. IWW Environmental Unionism Caucus (EUC) Training Request Form. Training for Trainers (T4T) Application Form. Sato Fund. GHQ Reimbursement Form. Jobs with the IWW.

Organizing is the process by which a group of people take power over some aspect of their lives—on the job or in their communities. While community struggles are important in their own right, this Organizing Manual concentrates on organizing our fellow workers in the workplace—where we, as workers, have the industrial power to enforce our demands. Too often, organizing is viewed as leaders’ selling an external agency to workers to ‘represent’ them. One Possible IWW Organizational Model. The follwoing diagram is just one of many possible IWW Industrial Union organizational models based on the Metal Machinary Workers IU The diagram shows an automobile plant as a hypothetical shop. Note the following: The plant (detailed at the bottom) is organized into five-dozen shop departments. High turnover, sporadic members, and fellow travelers who won't join your IWW branch can still help build the IWW - Core Members and Peripheral Supporters by x (B) Staying Connected: How to connect to other branches and industrial unions IWW and keep non-member supporters in the IWW sphere of influence - Using Social Media to Build the.

For all their talk about direct action, western Wobblies did little on-the-job organizing in the years immediately following the bummery's coup. It was written in by Ralph Chaplin, a poet, writer and organizer for the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), a militant union known to all as the. U.S. Labor History: Includes history of organized labor, as well as more general instruction manuals, adult education, trade manuals, and K workbooks.