Joe Hill: The IWW & the Making of a Revolutionary Workingclass Counterculture

By Franklin Rosemont

Book Overview

Biography. This throrough biography chronicles the life and revolutionary ideas ofJoe Hill, the best-known figure in the heroic history of the Industrial Workers of the World (a.k.a. Wobblies). Unlike previous biographies, Franklin Rosemont's book sheds new light on the crime Hill was framed for and his martyrdom, but focuses overall on Hill's ideas and actvity. Here we see Hill as a songwriter, poet, artist, hobo, thinker, humorist, and archetypal rank-and-file-Wobbly.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0882862642
• ISBN13: 9780882862644
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Black Swan/Surrealist Editions
• Length: 639 Pages
• Weight: 2.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.3" x 1.5" x 5.5"