![]() ![]() This book, being about work, is, by its very nature, about violence - to the spirit as well as to the body. Studs Terkel's Working: A Graphic Adaptation, adapted by Harvey Pekar, edited by Paul Buhle ![]() But what the Wobs did was to hold up an alternative, the alternative we need now more than ever. ![]() ![]() Will the same thing or something like it happen, as the empire slides into crisis again/ Only time will tell. The Wobbly world and promise was wrecked, finally by the eager collaboration of corporate business and the military, liberals and conservatives, all of them committee firmly to Empire. The world of the Wobblies was one realized in its best moments by solidarity across race, ethnic, gender, and nationality lines. The world of the Wobs was made up of immigrant workers without steady employment, health plans, social security or drug benefits (like the future that Republicans and many a Democrat envision), without any responsibility on the part of the filthy rich for the growing class of poor - so much like the society around us today. Wobblies!: A Graphic History of the Industrial Workers of the World, edited by Paul Buhle and Nicole Schulman (many contributors) ![]()
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