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Ben Fletcher

The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly, Second Edition

ISBN-13: 9781629638324

Author(s): Peter Cole

Subjects: 3MP, HBLW, N

Publisher: Pm Press

Publisher Imprint: Pm Press

Publication Date: 09-02-2021

Format: Paperback / softback

Availability: In stock

£18.99
Ben Fletcher

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.