Books Briefly
Books Briefly One Big Union SOLIDARITY FOREVER: AN ORAL HISTORY OF THE IWW by Stewart Bird, Dan Georgakas, and Deborah Shaffer Lake View Press (P.O. Box 578279, Chicago, IL 60657). 248 pp. $25...
...9.95 paperback...
...She is the less sympathetic character...
...The women are united, however, by thirty years of friendship and a desire to keep developers out of their neighborhood...
...The Wobblies have all but vanished from the scene, but this book provides a welcome reminder of brave and dedicated men and women who made a lasting contribution to the long, honorable radical tradition in this country...
...Steward Bird and Deborah Shaffer produced and directed The Wob-blies, a remarkable documentary about the Industrial Workers of the World...
...The plot is not quite believable, and there is an act of particularly cruel violence, but the realistic and unusual presentation of independent older women makes the novel worthwhile reading...
...This is the story of two elderly women in San Francisco...
...her stridency rears when compassion would be a better reaction...
...7.95 paperback...
...25 hardcover...
...She begins, and ends, an affair with a minister that is portrayed with uncommon gentleness and dignity...
...Six years ago...
...16.95 hardcover...
...Independent and Older WINTER'S EDGE by Valerie Miner The Crossing Press (Trumansburg, NY 14886...
...184 pp...
...The other, a spinster whose early great love was a casualty of his activism for Indian independence, substitutes a fiery social radicalism for personal intimacy...
...One, a widow whose son died in Vietnam and whose daughter is in political exile in Canada, eschews politics for the development of human relationships...
...Now these reminiscences have been gathered in book form, and labor historian Dan Georgakas has added an instructive account of the IWW's triumphs and disasters...
...The film contained bits of old newsreels, still photos, Wobbly songs, and other mementos of America's most impressive working-class movement, but the core of the movie was a moving series of interviews with aged—but still vigorously militant—veterans of the IWW...
Vol. 50 • March 1986 • No. 3
