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Definition of I.W.W.
1. Noun. A former international labor union and radical labor movement in the United States; founded in Chicago in 1905 and dedicated to the overthrow of capitalism; its membership declined after World War I.
Generic synonyms: Brotherhood, Labor Union, Trade Union, Trades Union, Union, Labor, Labor Movement, Trade Union Movement
Lexicographical Neighbors of I.W.W.
Literary usage of I.W.W.
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. War-time Strikes and Their Adjustment by Alexander M. Bing (1921)
"CHAPTER XIX The IWW and the Loyal Legion of Loggers and Lumbermen THE IWW IN its
... With these revolutionary theories and with the IWW's justification of ..."
2. The Casual Laborer, and Other Essays: And Other Essays by Carleton Hubbell Parker (1920)
"... the IWW in relation to the stable sweep and evolution of American industrialism.
The intensity of the war temper which plays about the IWW makes it very ..."
3. Free speech bibliography: including every discovered attitude toward the by Theodore Albert Schroeder (1922)
"[1917] 32p Indictment of five counts against about 175 IWW's for anti-war ...
Chicago, IWW pub. bu. 1918 102p On indictments for conspiracy to impair ..."
4. Readings in American Democracy by Thames Ross Williamson (1922)
"Excerpts from the IWW press1 Propaganda by means of the printed page is one of
the weapons The three- of the IWW Nothing more clearly illustrates the ..."
5. The Web by Emerson Hough (1919)
"CHAPTER X THE GREAT IWW TRIAL Story of the Greatest Criminal Prosecution Known
In the Jurisprudence of America — The Lawless Acts Leading up to the Arrests ..."
6. Journal of the National Institute of Social Sciences by National Institute of Social Sciences (U.S.) (1918)
"NOTES ON THE IWW IN ARIZONA AND THE NORTHWEST BY ROBERT W. BRUERE At the request
of the New York Evening Post, I set out to report on certain industrial ..."
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