E19: The IWW in Australia

Working Class History

Society & Culture, Education, History

5.0 • 813 Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2019

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Episode on the early history of the revolutionary Industrial Workers of the World union in Australia, in conversation with Paula DeAngelis. Paula is a historian and contributed to Wobblies of the World: a global history of the IWW.
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This is our playlist of early IWW music: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7…73VUIFoIkZqqRVM79
You can buy Wobblies of the World here: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0745399592/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0745399592&linkCode=as2&tag=workingclas01-20&linkId=2dcaa991574b707f6725e787eaac7f00
Episode 6 of our podcast gives an introduction to the IWW in the US so we recommend listening to that before this unless you are well acquainted with IWW history and terminology already.
FOOTNOTES
– This is a short history of the Australian IWW: https://libcom.org/history/1914-2000-the-australian-iww-and-direct-action
– These are personal recollections of involvement in the Australian IWW: https://libcom.org/library/memoirs-i-w-w-australia-bill-beattie
– This short history of the IWW outside the US has a helpful chronology of the Australian IWW: https://libcom.org/history/brief-history-iww-outside-us-1905-1999
– This article compares gender politics between the Australian and US IWWs: https://libcom.org/history/virile-syndicalism-comparative-perspective-gender-analysis-iww-united-states-australia
– This is a short biography of Tom Barker: https://libcom.org/history/barker-tom-1887-1970
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Thanks to Warren Fahey for permission to use his rendition of the Australian IWW song "Bump me into Parliament": http://www.warrenfahey.com.au/
You can also stream it on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/4J1ihYA2Q1etEpD2RuKPR1
This episode was edited by Louise Barry from Audio Interference: http://interferencearchive.org/category/publications/audio/

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0:54.4	everything secure. While mostly known for its organisation in the US, the revolutionary industrial
0:59.7	workers of the World Union has a significant history on the other side of the world, in Australia,
1:04.5	where IWW members organise organise winning improvements for coal miners, fruit pickers,
1:10.4	sheep shearers and others,
1:11.8	and help stop conscription to the army during World War I.
1:15.3	This is working class history.
1:20.8	Come listen, all kind friends of mine, I want to move a motion, to make an Eldorado here,'ve got a bonz an ocean bump me into parliament bounce me any bleeding way bang me into parliament on next election day
1:38.8	Today we're going to be talking about the history of the IWW union also known as the Woblies in Australia
1:45.0	We introduced the union in our episode 6, so if you're not acquainted with basic info about the union, I'd go back and listen to that first.
1:52.0	We are very pleased to be joined by Paula DeAngelis, a contributor to Woblies of the world, a global history of the IWWW,
1:59.0	who, like Verity Bergman, wrote a chapter
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