Industrial Workers of the World
Organization
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
Carolyn Ashbaugh Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Ashbaugh
Abstract
Includes correspondence, memoranda, notes, cassette tapes of interviews, etc., for Carolyn Ashbaugh's biography of Lucy Parsons, published by the Charles H. Kerr Co. for the Illinois Labor History Society in 1976.
Dates:
1970-1976
Charles H. Kerr Publishing Company records
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Kerr
Abstract
Business records (financial, stock, and customer order files), manuscripts, author information, and publishing, production, and promotion information for the Charles H. Kerr Company, the oldest labor and socialist publishing house in the United States. The collections also includes some information about The Socialist Party, The Proletarian Party, unions, and radical organizations, primarily in the United States.
Dates:
1885-1999
Franklin and Penelope Rosemont collection of IWW publications and ephemera
Collection
Identifier: Case-folio-HD-8055
Abstract
Publications, official documents, song books, and other materials created by and related to the Industrial Workers of the World, an historic union and labor organization.
Dates:
1905-2005; Majority of material found within 1905 - 1935
Franklin Rosemont-Haymarket research papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Rosemont-Haymarket
Abstract
Research notes, photocopies, drafts, proofs, photographs, and correspondence comprising the papers used to research and produce the Haymarket Scrapbook, edited by Franklin Rosemont and Dave Roediger (Charles H. Kerr Pub. Co., 1986). Also materials related to the activities commemorating the centennial of the 1886-1887 Haymarket Affair.
Dates:
1975-2009; Majority of material found within 1980-1993
Franklin Rosemont - T-Bone Slim research collection
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Rosemont-Slim
Abstract
Original manuscript writings by noted IWW member T-Bone Slim with research notes, book drafts, and correspondence from Franklin Rosemont used to produce his book, “Juice is Stranger than Friction: Selected Writings of T-Bone Slim” (Charles H. Kerr Publishing Company, 1992).
Dates:
approximately 1923-1993; Majority of material found within 1934 - 1993
Fred Thompson Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Thompson
Abstract
Correspondence, writings, publications, photographs, etc. of Fred W. Thompson, I.W.W. official and historian, and president of the Charles H. Kerr Company. A radical in his native Canada, Thompson came to the United States in 1922 and joined the I.W.W. He remained an active member for over 65 years. In the 1970s, he joined a Kerr Publishing Company rescue effort. There is considerable correspondence with Wobblies, some addressed to Franklin H. Rosemont, and also photographs of union members.
Dates:
1915-1997; Majority of material found within 1960 - 1985
Joseph Giganti papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Giganti
Abstract
Papers and photographs pertaining to Chicagoan Joe Giganti, a labor defense activist who served as the Chairman of the Board of the Charles H. Kerr Publishing Company. The collection includes 1930s periodicals, documents, and ephemera of Communist and Socialist groups in Chicago, New York, Italy, and elsewhere. Also included are Giganti's University papers, a file on Giorgio del Vecchio, an audio recording of Giganti, and a photograph album, which features Joe's wife, Rose.
Dates:
1917-1986; Majority of material found within 1930 - 1950