Ben Fletcher
ISBN-13: 9781629638621
Author(s): Peter Cole
Subjects: BG, DNB
Publisher: Pm Press
Publisher Imprint: Pm Press
Publication Date: 12-11-2020
Format: Hardback
Availability: Temporary unavailable
£56.99
About the book
Ben Fletcher: The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly tells the story of one of the greatest heroes of the American working class. A brilliant union organiser and a humorous orator, Benjamin Fletcher (1890 - 1949) was a tremendously important and well-loved African American member of the IWW during its heyday. Fletcher helped found and lead Local 8 of the IWW's Marine Transport Workers Industrial Union, unquestionably the most powerful interracial union of its era, taking a principled stand against all forms of xenophobia and exclusion.