Big Bill Haywoods Book

Author : Big Bill 1869-1928 Haywood
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781019366660
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bill Haywood's Book written by Big Bill 1869-1928 Haywood and published by Hassell Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of one of America's most famous labor leaders, this autobiography provides a firsthand account of the early years of the Industrial Workers of the World and the struggles of workers during the early 20th century. Haywood's story is a must-read for anyone interested in the history of the American labor movement. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : William D. Haywood
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780717808106
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Big Bill Haywood's Book written by William D. Haywood and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is William D. Haywood's own story, written during the last year of his life. A heroic giant of the American labor movement during its most turbulent years, "Big Bill" was a Socialist and a founder and leader of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). Born in Salt Lake City, he went into the Nevada metal mines at the age of 15 and joined the Western Federation of Miners in 1896 at 27. At 31, he was Secretary-Treasurer of the WFM and led its epic struggles against the mining trusts. He became the storm center of many other great labor struggles on the eve of the first World War, including the strikes of textile workers in Lawrence, Mass. and in Paterson, N.J. He also led the militant Wobbly "Free Speech" fights, and was prosecuted for opposing U.S. entry into World War I. His story, a swift moving narrative as absorbing as a novel, should be known to the present generation.

Author : Scott C. Roper
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476630917
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When Baseball Met Big Bill Haywood written by Scott C. Roper and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-11-28 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early 20th century, immigration, labor unrest, social reforms and government regulations threatened the power of the country's largest employers. The Amoskeag Manufacturing Company of Manchester, New Hampshire, remained successful by controlling its workforce, the local media, and local and state government. When a 1912 strike in nearby Lawrence, Massachusetts, threatened to bring the Industrial Workers of the World union to Manchester, the company sought to reassert its influence. Amoskeag worked to promote company pride and to Americanize its many foreign-born workers through benevolence programs, including a baseball club. Textile Field, the most advanced stadium in New England outside of Boston when it was built in 1913, was the centerpiece of this effort. Results were mixed--the company found itself at odds with social movements and new media outlets, and Textile Field became a magnet for conflict with all of professional baseball.

Author : J. Anthony Lukas
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439128103
Total Pages : 884 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Big Trouble written by J. Anthony Lukas and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-07-17 with total page 884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailed as "toweringly important" (Baltimore Sun), "a work of scrupulous and significant reportage" (E. L. Doctorow), and "an unforgettable historical drama" (Chicago Sun-Times), Big Trouble brings to life the astonishing case that ultimately engaged President Theodore Roosevelt, Supreme Court justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, and the politics and passions of an entire nation at century's turn. After Idaho's former governor is blown up by a bomb at his garden gate at Christmastime 1905, America's most celebrated detective, Pinkerton James McParland, takes over the investigation. His daringly executed plan to kidnap the radical union leader "Big Bill" Haywood from Colorado to stand trial in Idaho sets the stage for a memorable courtroom confrontation between the flamboyant prosecutor, progressive senator William Borah, and the young defender of the dispossessed, Clarence Darrow. Big Trouble captures the tumultuous first decade of the twentieth century, when capital and labor, particularly in the raw, acquisitive West, were pitted against each other in something close to class war. Lukas paints a vivid portrait of a time and place in which actress Ethel Barrymore, baseball phenom Walter Johnson, and editor William Allen White jostled with railroad magnate E. H. Harriman, socialist Eugene V. Debs, gunslinger Charlie Siringo, and Operative 21, the intrepid Pinkerton agent who infiltrated Darrow's defense team. This is a grand narrative of the United States as it charged, full of hope and trepidation, into the twentieth century.

Author : Peter Carlson
Publisher : W. W. Norton
ISBN 13 : 9780393302080
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Roughneck written by Peter Carlson and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 1984-12-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William D. Haywood
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1789124093
Total Pages : 707 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bill Haywood’s Book written by William D. Haywood and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-01 with total page 707 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ‘BIG BILL’ HAYWOOD This is William D. Haywood’s own story, written during the last year of his life. An heroic giant of the American labor movement during its most turbulent years, “Big Bill” was a Socialist and a founder and leader of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). Born in Salt Lake City, he went into the Nevada metal mines at the age of 15, and joined the Western Federation of Miners in 1896 at 25. At 31, he was Secretary-Treasurer of the WFM, and led its epic struggles against the mining trusts. He became the storm center of many other great labor struggles on the eve of the First World War, including the strikes of textile workers in Lawrence, Mass., and in Paterson, N.J. He also led the militant Wobbly “Free Speech” fights, and was prosecuted for opposing U.S. entry into World War I. His story, a swift moving narrative as absorbing as a novel, should be known to the present generation.

Author : Peter Cole
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
ISBN 13 : 9780745399607
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wobblies of the World written by Peter Cole and published by Pluto Press (UK). This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the global nature of the radical union, The Industrial Workers of the World

Author : Joseph Robert Conlin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Big Bill Haywood and the Radical Union Movement written by Joseph Robert Conlin and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Haywood Henderson
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780143038290
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Augusta Locke written by William Haywood Henderson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-03-27 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An indelible portrait of a woman who through great toughness of character blazes her own trail Novelist William Haywod Henderson has won acclaim for his depictions of land and nature and his ability to bring the American West to vivid life. Of his most recent novel, The Rest of the Earth, Annie Proulx remarked that Henderson “writes some of the most evocative and transcendently beautiful prose in contemporary American literature.” Redolent with myth, humor, strange landscapes, and stark reality, Henderson’s new novel tells the story of Augusta Locke, a troubled yet spirited woman, as she raises her daughter in the deserts of Wyoming. Spanning the twentieth century, Augusta’s extraordinary challenges play out themes of love and loss, home and family, redemption and reconciliation.

Author : William Haywood Henderson
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803228457
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Native written by William Haywood Henderson and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2010-05-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the contemporary West of ranchhands and drifters, this startlingly original novel tells the story of a man trapped between his own deepest desires and the demands of a strict society where love between men is the ultimate transsgression. "Finely wrought".--The Village Voice.