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1879–1915 · Swedish-American labor activist, songwriter, and member of the Industrial Workers of the World
Also known as: Joel Emmanuel Hägglund, Joseph Hillström, Джо Хилл, جو هيل, 조 힐, ジョー・ヒル (労働運動家)
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Wobbly songwriter and humorist writing satirical working-class songs for the Little Red Songbook. (AI reason)
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Folk protest songs about workers, migrants and the poor in a plainspoken, parody-friendly vein. (AI reason)
Arturo Giovannitti1884–1959ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetRadical labor poetry rooted in the IWW strikes and immigrant workers' struggles. (AI reason)
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Elizabeth Gurley Flynn1890–1964ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetFirsthand writing on IWW organizing and free-speech fights of the same era. (AI reason)
Jack London1876–1916ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetSocialist essays and fiction depicting hoboes, labor exploitation and class revolt. (AI reason)
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Collected and wrote union and protest songs carrying on the Wobbly songbook tradition. (AI reason)
Upton Sinclair1878–1968ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetMuckraking fiction exposing industrial labor conditions in early twentieth-century America. (AI reason)
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His novel 'Joe Hill' (The Preacher and the Slave) fictionalizes the IWW milieu and its songs. (AI reason)
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- The letters of Joe Hill
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- The John Neuhaus collection of Wobbly songs