{"product_id":"joe-hill-the-iww-the-making-of-a-revolutionary-workingclass-counterculture-by-working-class-history-shop","title":"Joe Hill: The IWW \u0026 the Making of a Revolutionary Workingclass Counterculture by Working Class History | Shop","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eFulfilled by our friends at Working Class History | Shop\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA monumental work by Franklin Rosemont, expansive in scope, covering the life, times, and culture of that most famous of the Wobblies – songwriter, poet, hobo, thinker, humorist, martyr – Joe Hill.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDescription\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is a journey into the Wobbly culture that made Hill and the capitalist culture that killed him. Many aspects of the life and lore of Joe Hill receive their first and only discussion in IWW historian Franklin Rosemont’s opus.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn great detail, the issues that Joe Hill raised and grappled with in his life: capitalism, white supremacy, gender, religion, wilderness, law, prison, and industrial unionism are shown in both the context of Hill’s life and for their enduring relevance in the century since his death.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCollected too is Joe Hill’s art, plus scores of other images featuring Hill-inspired art by IWW illustrators from Ralph Chaplin to Carlos Cortez, as well as contributions from many other labor artists.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs Rosemont suggests in this remarkable book, Joe Hill never really died. He lives in the minds of young (and old) rebels as long as his songs are sung, his ideas are circulated, and his political descendants keep fighting for a better day.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e“Joe Hill has finally found a chronicler worthy of his revolutionary spirit, sense of humor, and poetic imagination.” —Robin D.G. Kelley, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eFreedom Dreams\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e“Rosemont’s treatment of Joe Hill is passionate, polemical, and downright entertaining. What he gives us is an extended and detailed argument for considering both Hill and the IWW for their contributions toward creating an autonomous and uncompromising alternative culture.” —Gordon Simmons,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eLabor Studies Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e“Magnificent, practical, irreverent and (as one might say) magisterial, written in a direct, passionate, sometimes funny, deeply searching style.” —Peter Linebaugh, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eStop, Thief!\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e“Rosemont seems to have hunted down every available detail of Hill’s short life and abiding legend.” —\u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e“It has been a long time since so much new material on Joe Hill and the Wobblies has been collected in one volume. All students of the IWW, labor cartoons and songs, radical humor, and the history of blue-collar countercultures in the U.S. will find this book indispensable.” —Salvatore Salerno, editor of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Big Red Songbook\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout Franklin Rosemont:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFranklin Rosemont was born in Chicago in 1943. His father, Henry, was a labor activist, and his mother, Sally, a jazz musician. He edited and wrote an introduction for\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhat Is Surrealism? Selected Writings\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eby André Breton, and edited\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eRebel Worker\u003c\/em\u003e,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eArsenal\/Surrealist Subversion\u003c\/em\u003e,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Rise and Fall of the Dill Pickle\u003c\/em\u003e, and\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eJuice Is Stranger than Friction: Selected Writings of T-Bone Slim\u003c\/em\u003e. With Penelope Rosemont and Paul Garon he edited\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Forecast Is Hot!\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eHis work was deeply concerned with both the history of surrealism (writing a foreword for\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eMax Ernst and Alchemy: A Magician in Search of Myth\u003c\/em\u003e) and of the radical labor movement in America. For several decades he and Penelope Rosemont combined such interests helming the venerable radical publishing house the Charles H. Kerr Co. He died in 2009 in Chicago.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout David Roediger:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDavid Roediger is Kendrick Babcock Chair of History at the University of Illinois. Among his books are\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eOur Own Time: A History of American Labor and the Working Day\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(with Philip S. Foner),\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eHow Race Survived U.S. History: From Settlement and Slavery to the Obama Phenomenon\u003c\/em\u003e, and\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class\u003c\/em\u003e. He is the editor of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eFellow Worker: The Life of Fred Thompson\u003c\/em\u003e,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe North and Slavery\u003c\/em\u003e, and\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eBlack on White: Black Writers on What It Means to Be White\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eas well as a new edition of Covington Hall’s\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eLabor Struggles in the Deep South\u003c\/em\u003e. His articles have appeared in\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eNew Left Review\u003c\/em\u003e,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eAgainst the Current\u003c\/em\u003e,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eRadical History Review\u003c\/em\u003e,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eHistory Workshop Journal\u003c\/em\u003e, and\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Progressive\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProduct Details:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAuthor: Franklin Rosemont • Introduction by David Roediger\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: PM Press\/Charles H. 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