This bibliography is rather concentrated on the 1919-20
period, and IWW in this period of time, but some of the sources have more
information on the IWW in general.
Primary Sources Concerning the Red Scare and the IWW:
- Files of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, the Department of
Justice, the Pardon Attorney Office, the Adjutant General, and the Post
Office Department.
- Hearings on Strike at Lawrence, Massachusetts, House Document
No.671, 62d Congress, 2d Session.
- A Report on the Lawrence, Massachusetts Strike, Senate Document
No.870, 62d Congress, 2d Session.
- Industrial Workers of the World, Constitution and By-Laws, 1905,
1912.
Papers and Periodicals:
- General Defense Bulletin, (IWW), 1920.
Book(s):
Brissenden, Paul F., The IWW, A Study of American Syndicalism,
Columbia University Press, New York, 1920.
Magazine Article(s):
McMahon, Theresa S., "Centralia and the IWW", Survey, November 29,
1919.
Secondary Sources
- Dietrich, Julia, The Old Left in History and Literature, Twayne
Publishers, New York, 1996.
- Draper, Theodore, The Roots of American Communism, The Viking
Press, New York, 1957.
- Dubofsky, Melvyn, Industrialism and the American Worker,
1865-1920, Harlan Davidson, Arlington Heights, 1980.
- Dubofsky, Melvyn, We Shall Be All: A History of the IWW, Chicago,
1969.
- Dunn, Robert W., The Palmer Raids, New York, 1948.
- Gengarelly, Anthony W., Distinguished Dissenters and Opposition to
the 1919-1920 Red Scare, The Edwin Mellen Press, New York, 1996.
- Higham, John, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of American Nativism,
1860-1925, Rutgers Univeristy Press, New Brunswick, 1988.
- Kornbluh, Joyce L.,(ed.) Rebel Voices: An IWW Anthology, Charles
H. Kerr, Chicago, 1988.
- Kovel, Joel, Red Hunting in the Promised Land: Anticommunism and the
Making of America, Basic Books, New York, 1994.
- Levin, Murray, Political Hysteria in America, Basic Books, New
York, 1970.
- M.J.Buhle, P.Buhle, H.J.Kaye (Eds.) The American Radical,
Routledge, London, 1994.
- Mitchell, David, 1919 Red Mirage, Macmillan, New York, 1970.
- Murray, Robert K., Red Scare: A Study in National Hysteria, U. of
Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1955.
- Perlman, Selig & Taft, Philip, History of Labor in the United
States, vol.4, The Macmillan Company, New York, 1966.
- Preston, William Jr., Aliens and Dissenters: Federal Suppression of
Radicals, 1903-1933, Harper&Row Publishers, New York, 1966.
- Ramirez, Bruno, When Workers Fight: The Politics of Industrial
Relationsin the Progressive Era, 1898-1916, Greenwoon Press, Westport,
1978.
- Thompson, Fred, The IWW: Its First Fifty Years (1905-1955), IWW,
Chicago.
- Weinstein, James, The Decline of Socialism in America, 1912-1925,
Monthly Review Press, New York, 1967.
That's all for now. Please Email me if you can add anything to list
above.
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- Rebel Worker, (IWW), 1918.
- Solidarity, (IWW), 1920-1921.
- Blum, John M., "Nativism, Anti-Radicalism, and the Foreign Scare,
1917-29", Midwest Journal, III Winter 1950-51.
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