{"id":10896,"date":"2008-04-25T14:47:46","date_gmt":"2008-04-25T14:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/libtest\/2008\/04\/25\/learn_about_phi\/"},"modified":"2013-04-29T17:22:38","modified_gmt":"2013-04-29T17:22:38","slug":"learn_about_phi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/librarynews\/2008\/04\/25\/learn_about_phi\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia&#8217;s Waterfront Wobblies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"ourbigunion.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/librarynews\/files\/2012\/05\/ourbigunion.jpg\" \/><\/span>On April 17, after visiting the Temple Book Club to discuss his new book <a href=\"http:\/\/diamond.temple.edu\/search\/c?SEARCH=HD8055.I5+C63+2007\">Wobblies on the Waterfront: Interracial Unionism in Progressive Era Philadelphia<\/a> (University of Illinois Press, 2007), author <strong>Peter Cole<\/strong> was interviewed by librarian Fred Rowland. In the interview, he provides a fascinating look at Progressive Era Philadelphia, an industrial dynamo of American capitalism whose busy port along the Delaware River gave rise to a successful interracial multiethnic union (IWW Local 8) that was able to overcome employer resistance to control work on the docks from about 1913 to the early 1920&#8217;s. While discussing Local 8 and its unique success in bringing together white Protestant, black, and immigrant Catholic and Jewish longshoremen, he talks about the radical <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iww.org\/\">Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)<\/a>and their relationship to the rest of American labor, the nature of work on the docks, local labor and race relations, the effects of World War I and Bolshevik Revolution on the port of Philadelphia and the IWW, as well as lessons to be learned from Local 8&#8217;s rise and fall.\u00a0 If you&#8217;re interested in Philadelphia history, you&#8217;ll like this interview.<\/p>\n<p>[ensemblevideo contentid=c75xRq8Td0yEQGOogwLuqQ audio=true]\u00a0(MP3, 20 minutes)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/deimos.apple.com\/WebObjects\/Core.woa\/BrowsePrivately\/temple.edu.19979357986.019979357992.19975182727?i=1997239917\"><strong>iTunes U link<\/strong><\/a> (for downloads)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/deimos3.apple.com\/WebObjects\/Core.woa\/Feed\/temple.edu.19979357986.019979357992\">Subscribe to this podcast series<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For a brief overview of the Industrial Workers of the World, <a href=\"https:\/\/libproxy.temple.edu:2343\/login?url=http:\/\/go.galegroup.com\/ps\/i.do?id=GALE%7CCX3437702294&amp;v=2.1&amp;u=temple_main&amp;it=r&amp;p=GVRL&amp;sw=w\">go here<\/a> (Temple-only).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On April 17, after visiting the Temple Book Club to discuss his new book Wobblies on the Waterfront: Interracial Unionism in Progressive Era Philadelphia (University of Illinois Press, 2007), author Peter Cole was interviewed by librarian Fred Rowland. 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