Review: Under the Iron Heel: The Wobblies and the Capitalist War on Radical Workers, by Ahmed White

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Book Review| November 01 2023 Review: Under the Iron Heel: The Wobblies and the Capitalist War on Radical Workers, by Ahmed White Under the Iron Heel: The Wobblies and the Capitalist War on Radical Workers. By Ahmed White. (Oakland, University of California Press, 2022. 360 pp.) Greg Hall Greg Hall Western Illinois University Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Pacific Historical Review (2023) 92 (4): 670–672. https://doi.org/10.1525/phr.2023.92.4.670 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Greg Hall; Review: Under the Iron Heel: The Wobblies and the Capitalist War on Radical Workers, by Ahmed White. Pacific Historical Review 1 November 2023; 92 (4): 670–672. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/phr.2023.92.4.670 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentPacific Historical Review Search The rich history of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) has been the subject of an incredible array of historical studies over the course of many decades. Some of those histories focus on the union as a whole and others focus on specific elements of the union or themes associated with it. Ahmed White’s Under the Iron Heel: The Wobblies and the Capitalist War on Radical Workers offers a thematic history of the union’s struggle to maintain its existence in the face of repression from federal, state, and local governments as well as from attacks from business communities and vigilantes. White asserts that the systematic repression that the union experienced in the 1910s and 1920s has not been given the attention that it deserves, arguing that it has only received sporadic analysis by historians and other scholars. Indeed, it is true that studies of the IWW tend to end... You do not currently have access to this content.