Always On Strike

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Frank Little was a union organiser before becoming active in the Industrial Workers of the World international labour union in 1906. The IWW - better known as the Wobblies' - contended that workers should be united as a class, the wage system should be abolished and workers should have the power to elect their own managers. Always on Strike centres on Little's activities with the IWW and discusses the IWW's free speech actions, rebellions and suppression, as well as Little's assassination and the Wobbly conspiracy trials.'

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"Today, Frank Little gets remembered as another Wobbly martyr, overshadowed by folksinger and labor organizer Joe Hill. But as historian Irving Werstein wrote, "Next to Big Bill Haywood, Frank Little was the most vital leader of the IWW." Arnold Stead's short and engaging Always on Strike: Frank Little and the Western Wobblies aims to recover his mighty struggles and special boldness as object lessons for left-wingers organizing in the shadow of the Great Recession....'[I]n today's working class and left movement, which is only yet regaining the confidence to strike and struggle in isolated pockets, Stead's words hit the nail on the head. And so does Frank Little's story." Socialist Worker
"Today, Frank Little gets remembered as another Wobbly martyr, overshadowed by folksinger and labor organizer Joe Hill. But as historian Irving Werstein wrote, "Next to Big Bill Haywood, Frank Little was the most vital leader of the IWW." Arnold Stead's short and engaging Always on Strike: Frank Little and the Western Wobblies aims to recover his mighty struggles and special boldness as object lessons for left-wingers organizing in the shadow of the Great Recession....'[I]n today's working class and left movement, which is only yet regaining the confidence to strike and struggle in isolated pockets, Stead's words hit the nail on the head. And so does Frank Little's story." Socialist Worker

Author Bio

Arnold Stead, Ph.D. in English Literature (University of Missouri-Columbia 93), is a poet, fiction writer, historian, playwright, jazz and film critic. He lives in Minneapolis, MN with his wife and family.