Description: "T-Bone Slim was the most popular and talented writer belonging to the Industrial Workers of the World, yet despite his importance and fame during his lifetime, his work disappeared from public view almost immediately after his death in 1942. The Popular Wobbly brings together a wide selection of his writings along with the latest research on this enigmatic character to create a vivid portrait that offers inspiration for artists and activists to march and agitate for a more just and equitable world"--
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"With switchblade wit, the great IWW provocateur T-Bone Slim skewered injustice and uplifted the working class."--Tom Morello
"T-Bone Slim was a really impressive person who should be much better known. This anthology shows that his words and ideas are still relevant today."--Noam Chomsky
"This is lost wisdom."--Billy Bragg
"[These writings have] the force of Hemingway plus the sting of Swift."--Lee Taylor
"It remains impossible to reproduce T-Bone Slim's matchless wordplay and invention of language. . . . We believe his madcap humor and sober truths because his brilliance hews so closely to our everyday experiences."--David Roediger
"T-Bone Slim wrote the way an arsonist sets fires."--Franklin Rosemont
"T-Bone Slim lived his life in North America, but he created a world of his own. This world was rooted in the harsh realities of migrant workers' lives, but at the same time it was a world of fantasy, black humor, and language play, free from time and place. This world is just as alive and recognizable today as it was in his time."--Kirsti Salmi-Niklander
"[T-Bone Slim] was the laureate of the logging camps."--Harvey O'Connor
"T-Bone Slim is the rare voice whose social commentary remains on point for over a century. Compiled by editors Owen Clayton and Iain McIntyre, The Popular Wobbly gives everyone a chance to recognize how the forces opposing greater social and economic justice over a hundred years ago are still pursuing that agenda today."--Beyond Chron
"The Popular Wobbly: Selected Writings of T-Bone Slim gathers Slim's poems, songs, columns, witticisms, and more... The volume is an especially timely read, a poignant reminder that injustice, class divisions, and ethnic strife are longstanding and enduring issues among America's workforce."--Journeys, Enchantments, Discoveries, Insights: Book Reviews
"That the editors of this volume have found so much rich material and treated it with great care is surely a prime example of unknown labor-culture treasures made newly available... Let your imagination run wild while perusing the pages of this book."--Long Haul Magazine
"For those who appreciate the written word, who have an interest in history or in union organizing, and especially for those among us who have ever gone to bed hungry and broke, this book will provide you with sustenance of all kinds."--Fifth Estate
"[Clayton and McIntyre's] work is not just editorial - it's an act of cultural recovery, a kind of literary archaeology that dusts off the bones of a forgotten radical and lets him speak again."--The Newtown Review of Books
"[Clayton and McIntyre] have done important work recovering and documenting T-Bone's life and writings, but they have also produced a book that is a pleasure to read." --Anarcho-Syndicalist Review