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The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), members of which are commonly termed "Wobblies", is an international, radical labor union that was founded in 1905. The union combines general unionism with industrial unionism, being a general union itself whose members are further organized within the industry of their employment. The philosophy and tactics of the IWW are described as "revolutionary industrial unionism," with ties to both socialist and anarchist labor movements. The origin of the nickname "Wobblies" is uncertain. The IWW promotes the concept of "One Big Union", and contends that all workers should be united as a social class to supplant capitalism and wage labor with industrial democracy. They are known for the Wobbly Shop model of workplace democracy, in which workers elect their managers and other forms of grassroots democracy (self-management) are implemented. IWW membership does not require that one work in a represented workplace,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=(1) I am a student, a retired worker, and/or I am unemployed; can I still be an IWW member? )〕 nor does it exclude membership in another labor union.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=(2) I am a member of another union; can I still I join the IWW? )〕 In the 1910s and early '20s, the IWW achieved many of their short-term goals, particularly in the American west, and cut across traditional guild and union lines to organize workers in a variety of trades and industries. At their peak in August 1917, IWW membership was over 150,000.〔Eric Thomas Chester, ''The Wobblies in Their Heyday: The Rise and Destruction of the Industrial Workers of the World during the World War I Era,'' (Santa Barbara: Praeger Publishers, 2014), (xii ).〕 However, the extremely high rate of IWW membership turnover during this era (estimated at 133% per decade) makes it difficult to state membership totals with any certainty, as workers tended to join the IWW in large numbers for relatively short periods (e.g., during labor strikes and periods of generalized economic distress). Nonetheless, membership declined dramatically in the 1920s due to several factors. There were conflicts with other labor groups, particularly the American Federation of Labor (AFL) which regarded the IWW as too radical while the IWW regarded the AFL as too staid and conservative. Membership also declined in the wake of government crackdowns on radical, anarchist and socialist groups during the First Red Scare after WWI. The most decisive factor in the decline in IWW membership and influence, however, was a 1924 schism, from which the IWW never fully recovered.〔〔.〕 In 2012, the IWW moved its General Headquarters offices to 2036 West Montrose, Chicago. ==History 1905–1950== (詳細はウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Industrial Workers of the World」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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