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Joe Hill: The IWW & the Making of a Revolutionary Workingclass Counterculture
By Franklin Rosemont and David Roediger
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The only biography of musician, IWW labor activist, and martyr Joe Hill to fully explore his politics and cultural contributions as well as his lasting effect on the radical counterculture
This expansive work covers the life, times, and culture of that most famous member of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) or "Wobblies"—songwriter, poet, hobo, thinker, humorist, martyr—Joe Hill. Many aspects of the life and lore of Joe Hill receive their first and only discussion in IWW historian Franklin Rosemont's opus. In great detail, the issues that Joe Hill raised and grappled with in his life: capitalism, white supremacy, gender, religion, wilderness, law, prison, and industrial unionism are shown in both the context of Hill's life and for their enduring relevance in the century since his death. Collected too is Joe Hill's art, plus scores of other images featuring Hill-inspired art by IWW illustrators. As Rosemont suggests in this remarkable book, Joe Hill never really died as he lives in the minds of rebels as long as his songs are sung, his ideas are circulated, and his political descendants keep fighting for a better day.
This expansive work covers the life, times, and culture of that most famous member of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) or "Wobblies"—songwriter, poet, hobo, thinker, humorist, martyr—Joe Hill. Many aspects of the life and lore of Joe Hill receive their first and only discussion in IWW historian Franklin Rosemont's opus. In great detail, the issues that Joe Hill raised and grappled with in his life: capitalism, white supremacy, gender, religion, wilderness, law, prison, and industrial unionism are shown in both the context of Hill's life and for their enduring relevance in the century since his death. Collected too is Joe Hill's art, plus scores of other images featuring Hill-inspired art by IWW illustrators. As Rosemont suggests in this remarkable book, Joe Hill never really died as he lives in the minds of rebels as long as his songs are sung, his ideas are circulated, and his political descendants keep fighting for a better day.
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- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Be sure you have a strong stomach before you start this book.Oh, I don't mean that it's full of graphic violence or something. It's just that it is completely incapable of acknowledging any view other than its own. And, for me at least, that's a feeling that makes me very queasy.Let's be clear: I have a lot of respect for Joe Hill's intelligence and wit. I have a lot of sympathy for his political hopes, too. But I also know that, for instance, there was actual evidence against him in the court case that led to his execution. Enough to justify his fate? No. Enough that there should have been more investigation, preferably by someone more competent than the authorities in Utah? Clearly.Similarly, I am well aware that the businesses that Hill wrote against were run by greedy, unscrupulous, self-righteous, self-centered people. But they were people. They too deserve their side.Finally, I like organization, and I like documentation, and I like documentation that is not self-referential. This book contains a series of major sections, divided into minor sections -- the latter mostly very short, but highly repetitive -- and it has a bad tendency to cite "sources" from decades after Hill's execution. If you let me cite those sorts of "sources," I could prove that there were no labor troubles in Utah -- or that Hill was guilty as charged. In any case, only one of the major sections is about Hill's life and history.For someone who agrees entirely with Joe Hill's viewpoint, the result may be interesting. For someone who is trying to learn what actually happened in Hill's life, it was simply too much to swallow. I read the historical part at the beginning. I tried to make it through the parts about his visual artworks. Eventually I just started skipping around, looking for something that was about Joe Hill, as opposed to Franklin Rosemont's exaggerated opinions on Joe Hill.As with the large majority of works about Hill, this raises the (to me) very real question of why people are so opposed to trying to learn what is actually true, as opposed to what they find most comfortable. Personally, I'd rather know the truth even if it's uncomfortable. Yes, it's meant that I've had to change my political views, and quite a bit -- but it also means that my political views don't depend on ignoring facts.OK, having listened to me be cranky, may you now all go out and read some more pleasant reviews. :-) Or, better yet, some more pleasant books!