| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 107.4

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Greg Hall. Harvest Wobblies: The Industrial Workers of the World and Agricultural Laborers in the American West, 1905–1930. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press. 2002. Pp. 288. $34.95.

One of the great pleasures of being a historian is discovering the work of another scholar that takes a subject and an argument you have previously made and carries them in a different direction. Such is the case with Greg Hall's book. Hall examines issues that I dealt with in my own work on the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) in Oklahoma and applies those issues to California and the Pacific Northwest. What he has discovered both affirms my arguments regarding the success of the IWW's Agricultural Workers Industrial Union (AWIU) on the Great Plains while explaining its surprising lack of success in the Far West. 1

Focusing on the work culture of these regions, Hall confirms my own view that the relatively homogenuous nature of the Great Plains harvest workers—white, single, nearly all native born—was a substantial benefit for IWW organizing. Additionally, the radicalism of many Great Plains farmers, especially in North Dakota, and the smaller level of agribusiness control of farming in the region aided the Wobblies. . . .

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