Agent TypeOrganisationHistoryThe Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), was a revolutionary industrial union organized in Chicago in 1905 by delegates from the Western Federation of Mines and 42 other labor organizations. It became the chief organization in the United States representing the doctrines of syndicalism, a political and economic doctrine that advocates control of the means and processes of production by organized bodies of workers. Like anarchists, syndicalists believe that any form of state is an instrument of oppression. Its members were called, among other nicknames, the Wobblies. The aim of the IWW was to unite in one body all skilled and unskilled workers for the purpose of overthrowing capitalism and rebuilding society on a socialistic basis. Its methods were direct action , propaganda, the boycott, and the strike; it was opposed to sabotage, to arbitration or collective bargaining, and to political affiliation and intervention. The organization spread to Canada and Australia and in a very small way to Europe.
Ref: The Free Dictionary, http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/International+Workers+of+the+World, accessed 5 June 2012
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