The first critical edition of the writings of the prolific radical workers’ newspaper columnist and musician who rode the rails during the Great Depression The Popular Wobbly brings together a wide selection of writings by T-Bone Slim, the most popular and talented writer belonging to the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). Slim wrote humorous, polemical pieces, engaging with topics like labor and class injustice, which were mostly published in IWW publications from 1920 until his death in 1942. Although relatively little is known about Slim, editors Owen Clayton and Iain McIntyre coalesce…mehr
The first critical edition of the writings of the prolific radical workers’ newspaper columnist and musician who rode the rails during the Great Depression The Popular Wobbly brings together a wide selection of writings by T-Bone Slim, the most popular and talented writer belonging to the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). Slim wrote humorous, polemical pieces, engaging with topics like labor and class injustice, which were mostly published in IWW publications from 1920 until his death in 1942. Although relatively little is known about Slim, editors Owen Clayton and Iain McIntyre coalesce the latest research on this enigmatic character to create a vivid portrait that adds valuable context for the array of writings assembled here. Known as “the laureate of the logging camps,” Slim also composed numerous songs that have been performed and recorded by Pete Seeger, Utah Phillips, and Candie Carawan, who in 1960 updated Slim’s song “The Popular Wobbly” with Civil Rights–era lyrics. Slim’s witticisms, sayings, and exhortations (“Wherever you find injustice, the proper form of politeness is attack”; “Only the poor break laws—the rich evade them”) were widely discussed among fellow hobos across the “jungle” campfires that dotted the railways, and some even transcribed his commentary on boxcars that traveled the country. Yet despite Slim’s importance and fame during his lifetime, his work disappeared from public view almost immediately after his death. The Popular Wobbly is the first critical edition of Slim’s work and also a significant contribution to literature about working-class writers, the radical labor movement, and the history and culture of nomadism and precarity. With this publication, Slim’s rediscovered writings can once again inspire artists and activists to march and agitate for a more just and equitable world.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
T-Bone Slim (1882–1942), born Matti Valentinpoika Huhta, was a Finnish American humorist, columnist, poet, musician, hobo, and labor activist who was a prominent writer for the Industrial Workers of the World. Owen Clayton is senior lecturer in English literature at the University of Lincoln in England and author of Vagabonds, Tramps, and Hobos: The Literature and Culture of U.S. Transiency, 1890–1940 and Literature and Photography in Transition, 1850–1915. Iain McIntyre is honorary fellow with the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies, University of Melbourne; researcher at the Commons Social Change Library; and author of Environmental Blockades: Obstructive Direct Action and the History of the Environmental Movement. David R. Roediger is Foundation Professor of American Studies at the University of Kansas and author of The Sinking Middle Class: A Political History of Debt, Misery, and the Drift to the Right.
Inhaltsangabe
Contents Foreword, David R. Roediger Introduction: Mysteries of a Hobo’s Life, Owen Clayton and Iain McIntyre Editors’ Note Selected Writings of T-Bone Slim 1919–1921 Only a Mouse in Jail The Popular Wobbly An Earfull Just before the Panic, Mother! Twenty Years My Respects—Apology Soup Lines Mysteries of a Hobo’s Life Half-and-Half Headin’ In Headin’ In 1922 The Lumberjack’s Prayer Lots of Sympathy but No Help An Experience Sulphur and Molasses Overalls The Stuff Heroes Are Made Of Normalcy Has Arrived Das Kapital The Power of These Two Hands Consistently Speaking Nosebags 1923 Best People T-Bone Slim Discusses Between These Two Unfinished Business Speed of the Tongue War T-Bone Slim Discusses: The Off-Set Golf T-Bone Slim Extends Himself to Discuss Education T-Bone Slim Discusses: Sample Camps Off Colors Odds and Ends All I Know The Whole Hog: Of Emotions Raised by Charity Prepare for the Worst Must or Not-to-Must, or Freaks of Nature Sweet Charity Walking with the Dead Stand without Hitching An Eighty Year Boy Early History Starving amidst Too Much 1924 Mr. Hammond Deggs T-Bone Slim Discusses a Peace Plan Some Star! (The Solidarity of Desperation) I See, Says I Rights vs. Plights Mostly Song Indiana Moon Don’t Threaten Rock of Ages T-Bone Slim Discusses: Safety First T-Bone Slim Discusses Bugs and Fords True to Form T-Bone Slim Discusses: Discrimination Interlocking An Earfull 1925 Oranges To My Friend The Passing Show Cross Word Puzzle Industrial Unionism The United Affront From Murder to Re-Action Beseech and Collect T-Bone Slim Says: Figures Lie T-Bone Slim Discusses: Chop Suey T-Bone Slim Discusses T-Bone Slim Discusses: War Shortcuts 1926 Hall of Fame T-Bone Slim Discusses: Wry-Bread— Go or Melt T-Bone Slim Discusses the Laughing Dog Information T-Bone Slim Discusses: How Do They Do It Reporting the Reports Taxing Our Spirit The Trend A Restaurant Is No Stronger Than Its Weakest Coffee Now-a-Days Boneyard 1927 Boneyard Concessionaires? “Origin of Fatal Explosion Baffles All Investigation” Boneyard Rough Logic: Seeing’s Believing Razzpectability! Untitled Untitled 1928–1929 Boneyard That “Triple Threat” Passing the Plate Untitled Junk, or Close Quarters “Yes”—Men How Poems Are Made Work versus Ultra Violet Psycholeragising Wealth—and Time The Power of Tears Long Island Sound The Taste That Tells Put a Head on It 1930 Where Lies Safety? The Dizzy Race A Ghost Story Looking Things Over “Sundownitis” It Do Seem So— A Peach of a Story T-Bone Slim Takes to the Air, or Saved in the Nick of Time Elastic Transportation A Survey Measured Tread A Touching Story On Popular Sanitation 1931–1932 Three Bottles Say It with Flowers Slim Is Dissatisfied with His Looks Slim Gets Nervous A Mosquito’s Lunch “Will There Be Another War?” Roosevelt Was Right Raising a Family What Was in the Wrapper? The Hybrid Thumbs Down Untitled Race Hatred That’s That! Side Door Pullman Philosopher 1933–1936 T-Bone Economics Untitled Article Untitled Manuscript Notes Resurrection Untitled Manuscript Notes Chinese Wisecracks Extemporaneous Bath Extra! T. B. Slim’s Golden Discovery Cures Everything! Untitled Manuscript Notes It Should Be Labor Day 1937–1939 T-Bone Slim Takes a Look at the Show Why Ask the Boss for Recognition Sit-Down Strikes Too Good to Stop The Movie Stars—and a Picket Line Charity Covers a Multitude of Transgressions! Put the Boss in Overalls, Says T-Bone Slim The Purest Ray Serene T-Bone Slim Calls for a Housecleaning The Best of a Bad Bargain Is Plenty Tough Supplying Arms and a Matter of Business Ethics Street Beggars Private Letter When Privates Fight War by Telephone One Man Show Would Please Our Parasites We Don’t Want Dictatorship of Any Color 1940–1942 Nobody Is Shooting at the Rulers Should Indians Have Registered the Foreigners? How Slim Brought Peace to Frazee Masters Start War but Won’t Stay to Fight Don’t Stop to Rest on Dead Center Politicians Will Squirm after the War Warning of Cannon Fodder Shortage for War of 1960 Produce for Use and Peace Will Come at Last I Didn’t Know It Was Loaded Yes, Labor Is Partly to Blame Responses to T-Bone Slim To T-Bone Slim George Baker T-Bone Slim Ill “Editor Worker” Why No News from Our “T-Bone Slim”? Sam Murray A Reader Appreciates Our T-Bone Slim Interviewing T-Bone Slim Covami Foes Recognize Power of Our Inimitable Columnist, T-Bone Slim Hobo Poet Anonymous Work People’s College Youngsters Study and Frolic O.K.L. A Torch for T-Bone Slim Floyd Hoke-Miller Yours for the IWW “Old Nick” Slim’s Obituary Homage to T-Bone Slim Franklin Rosemont A Man Called America Ville-Juhani Sutinen Themes in the Writing of T-Bone Slim Acknowledgments Further Reading Index
Contents Foreword, David R. Roediger Introduction: Mysteries of a Hobo’s Life, Owen Clayton and Iain McIntyre Editors’ Note Selected Writings of T-Bone Slim 1919–1921 Only a Mouse in Jail The Popular Wobbly An Earfull Just before the Panic, Mother! Twenty Years My Respects—Apology Soup Lines Mysteries of a Hobo’s Life Half-and-Half Headin’ In Headin’ In 1922 The Lumberjack’s Prayer Lots of Sympathy but No Help An Experience Sulphur and Molasses Overalls The Stuff Heroes Are Made Of Normalcy Has Arrived Das Kapital The Power of These Two Hands Consistently Speaking Nosebags 1923 Best People T-Bone Slim Discusses Between These Two Unfinished Business Speed of the Tongue War T-Bone Slim Discusses: The Off-Set Golf T-Bone Slim Extends Himself to Discuss Education T-Bone Slim Discusses: Sample Camps Off Colors Odds and Ends All I Know The Whole Hog: Of Emotions Raised by Charity Prepare for the Worst Must or Not-to-Must, or Freaks of Nature Sweet Charity Walking with the Dead Stand without Hitching An Eighty Year Boy Early History Starving amidst Too Much 1924 Mr. Hammond Deggs T-Bone Slim Discusses a Peace Plan Some Star! (The Solidarity of Desperation) I See, Says I Rights vs. Plights Mostly Song Indiana Moon Don’t Threaten Rock of Ages T-Bone Slim Discusses: Safety First T-Bone Slim Discusses Bugs and Fords True to Form T-Bone Slim Discusses: Discrimination Interlocking An Earfull 1925 Oranges To My Friend The Passing Show Cross Word Puzzle Industrial Unionism The United Affront From Murder to Re-Action Beseech and Collect T-Bone Slim Says: Figures Lie T-Bone Slim Discusses: Chop Suey T-Bone Slim Discusses T-Bone Slim Discusses: War Shortcuts 1926 Hall of Fame T-Bone Slim Discusses: Wry-Bread— Go or Melt T-Bone Slim Discusses the Laughing Dog Information T-Bone Slim Discusses: How Do They Do It Reporting the Reports Taxing Our Spirit The Trend A Restaurant Is No Stronger Than Its Weakest Coffee Now-a-Days Boneyard 1927 Boneyard Concessionaires? “Origin of Fatal Explosion Baffles All Investigation” Boneyard Rough Logic: Seeing’s Believing Razzpectability! Untitled Untitled 1928–1929 Boneyard That “Triple Threat” Passing the Plate Untitled Junk, or Close Quarters “Yes”—Men How Poems Are Made Work versus Ultra Violet Psycholeragising Wealth—and Time The Power of Tears Long Island Sound The Taste That Tells Put a Head on It 1930 Where Lies Safety? The Dizzy Race A Ghost Story Looking Things Over “Sundownitis” It Do Seem So— A Peach of a Story T-Bone Slim Takes to the Air, or Saved in the Nick of Time Elastic Transportation A Survey Measured Tread A Touching Story On Popular Sanitation 1931–1932 Three Bottles Say It with Flowers Slim Is Dissatisfied with His Looks Slim Gets Nervous A Mosquito’s Lunch “Will There Be Another War?” Roosevelt Was Right Raising a Family What Was in the Wrapper? The Hybrid Thumbs Down Untitled Race Hatred That’s That! Side Door Pullman Philosopher 1933–1936 T-Bone Economics Untitled Article Untitled Manuscript Notes Resurrection Untitled Manuscript Notes Chinese Wisecracks Extemporaneous Bath Extra! T. B. Slim’s Golden Discovery Cures Everything! Untitled Manuscript Notes It Should Be Labor Day 1937–1939 T-Bone Slim Takes a Look at the Show Why Ask the Boss for Recognition Sit-Down Strikes Too Good to Stop The Movie Stars—and a Picket Line Charity Covers a Multitude of Transgressions! Put the Boss in Overalls, Says T-Bone Slim The Purest Ray Serene T-Bone Slim Calls for a Housecleaning The Best of a Bad Bargain Is Plenty Tough Supplying Arms and a Matter of Business Ethics Street Beggars Private Letter When Privates Fight War by Telephone One Man Show Would Please Our Parasites We Don’t Want Dictatorship of Any Color 1940–1942 Nobody Is Shooting at the Rulers Should Indians Have Registered the Foreigners? How Slim Brought Peace to Frazee Masters Start War but Won’t Stay to Fight Don’t Stop to Rest on Dead Center Politicians Will Squirm after the War Warning of Cannon Fodder Shortage for War of 1960 Produce for Use and Peace Will Come at Last I Didn’t Know It Was Loaded Yes, Labor Is Partly to Blame Responses to T-Bone Slim To T-Bone Slim George Baker T-Bone Slim Ill “Editor Worker” Why No News from Our “T-Bone Slim”? Sam Murray A Reader Appreciates Our T-Bone Slim Interviewing T-Bone Slim Covami Foes Recognize Power of Our Inimitable Columnist, T-Bone Slim Hobo Poet Anonymous Work People’s College Youngsters Study and Frolic O.K.L. A Torch for T-Bone Slim Floyd Hoke-Miller Yours for the IWW “Old Nick” Slim’s Obituary Homage to T-Bone Slim Franklin Rosemont A Man Called America Ville-Juhani Sutinen Themes in the Writing of T-Bone Slim Acknowledgments Further Reading Index
Es gelten unsere Allgemeinen Geschäftsbedingungen: www.buecher.de/agb
Impressum
www.buecher.de ist ein Internetauftritt der buecher.de internetstores GmbH
Geschäftsführung: Monica Sawhney | Roland Kölbl | Günter Hilger
Sitz der Gesellschaft: Batheyer Straße 115 - 117, 58099 Hagen
Postanschrift: Bürgermeister-Wegele-Str. 12, 86167 Augsburg
Amtsgericht Hagen HRB 13257
Steuernummer: 321/5800/1497
USt-IdNr: DE450055826
