| Book Reviews | The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 133.1

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Wobblies on the Waterfront: Interracial Unionism in Progressive-Era Philadelphia. By Peter Cole. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007. x, 227 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $40.)

Peter Cole has high ambitions: to rescue Local 8 of the National Industrial Union of Marine Transport Workers from obscurity. He succeeds admirably. Local 8, based along the Philadelphia waterfront, deserves serious scholarly treatment. It was the largest and most enduring union formed under the aegis of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) in the first decades of the twentieth century. Local 8 represented a remarkable alliance of white and black workers, and the union, while pragmatically fighting for improved working conditions for its member longshoremen, held to revolutionary principles. In unearthing the history of Local 8, Cole revives interest in the IWW, contributes to longstanding debates on American trade unions and the lives of African American workers, and illuminates a period in the labor history of Philadelphia that has been greatly neglected.

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