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The article reviews the book, "The Damndest Radical: The Life and World of Ben Reitman Chicago's Celebrated Social Reformer, Hobo King, and Whorehouse Physician," by Roger A. Bruns.
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The labour and socialist movement of British Columbia before World War One was home to a number of competing tendencies and factions. While the different groups could and did work together on occasion, their relations with each other were often marked by hostility and suspicion. The Vancouver free speech fights of 1909 and 1912 illustrate dramatically the in-fighting between the Socialist Party of Canada. the Industrial Workers of the World, and the Vancouver Trades and Labor Council. The different approaches of the organizations to the issue of free speech reflect their different ideologies, constituencies, and clans strata, and the actions of the SPC suggest that the party was, despite its impossiblist rhetoric, more interested in pragmatic trade unionism and social democracy than revolution. In refusing to put its faith in parliamentary democracy, the IWW demonstrated that it had a more consistent and deeper analysis of capitalist society than moat historians have suggested, but this very analysis and the actions consistent with it meant the IWW could be increasingly marginalized and isolated. (English)
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This article reviews the book, "The Soul of the Wobblies: The I.W.W., Religion, and American Culture in the Progressive Era, 1905-1917," by Donald E. Winters.
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This article reviews the book, "Roughneck: The Life and Times of Big Bill Haywood," by Peter Carlson.
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This thesis is an examination of the Industrial Workers of the World and its relations with capital, organized labour, and the socialist movement in British Columbia before the First World War.
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Takes note of forthcoming conferences, calls for papers, and a query regarding BC labour activist Robert Raglan Gosden.
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Andre Leblanc is acknowledged, whose idea it was to have this new section of the journal. Several forthcoming conferences are noted, as are two journal publications of interest. Also reported is a new masters and diploma program in gender and social policy at the University of Bristol. The editor is compiling a list of publications that mistakenly render the Industrial Workers of the World as the International Workers of the World.
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Takes note of forthcoming conferences and calls for papers. Reports that Elaine Bernard has left Simon Fraser University for a position at Harvard. Also reports on the Labour Archives Bulletin of the Canadian Association of Archivists, the deposit of records of the Trades Union Congress at the University of Warwick library, a United Farmworkers' boycott, and ways to support for the strike for a first collective agreement at Oxford University Press in Toronto. The editor re-issues a query for information (first published in the previous volume) regarding Robert Raglan Gosden (1881-1961), a BC labour activist who during the early 20th century was also a police spy.
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Takes note of calls for papers and a forthcoming conference. Reports on an addition to Wayne State University's Raya Dunayevskaya Collection, the effort to set up an international research network on coal miners and coal mines, and the Women's Labour History Project documentary entitled "Keep the Home Fires Burning." The spring 1989 edition of Archivaria will have a labour theme.
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The call for papers at several conferences is reported, as are other forthcoming conferences of interest. The spring issue (no. 27) of Archivaria will be on documenting labour. A new program in social history at Carnegie Mellon University is noted. The John Dryer Collection at Wayne State University has opened; it has one of the premier archival collections on American Trotskyism.
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