Iww (Noun)
Meaning
A former international labor union and radical labor movement in the United States; founded in Chicago in 1905 and dedicated to the overthrow of capitalism; its membership declined after World War I.
Classification
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects.
Examples
- The Industrial Workers of the World was founded on June 27, 1905, at a convention in Chicago.
- Joe Hill was a Swedish-American labor activist and songwriter who became a prominent figure in the IWW.
- The IWW sought to establish one union for all industries and sought to ultimately replace capitalism with industrial democracy.
- Wobblies, members of the IWW, sought to use sabotage as a tool for their struggles with capitalism and also in anti-war activism.
- Membership in the IWW increased steadily, and reached a peak in 1924 but by 1928 it declined.