Soapbox rebellion : the Hobo Orator union and the free speech fights of the industrial workers of the world, 1909-1916 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	May, Matthew Scott
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2013]
Series:	Rhetoric, culture, and social critique.
Subjects:	Labor movement > United States > History > 20th century. Industrial Workers of the World > History. Radicalism > United States > History. Social conflict > United States > History. Freedom of speech > United States. Industrial Workers of the World. Freedom of speech. Labor movement. Radicalism. Social conflict. United States. 1900 - 1999 History.

Table of Contents:

List of illustrations
Acknowledgments
Preface
Nothing in common : militant rhetorical history
Sparks from a live wire : the origins of the free speech fights and the battle of Spokane, 1909-1910
A class the masters fear : Fresno, 1910-1911
A spectacle of agitators : San Diego, 1912
Timber-beast lament : the Everett massacre, 1916
Orator war machines and the will to revolution
Notes
Glossary
Works cited
Index.