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E73: Ben Fletcher, part 1

Working Class History

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The History of the IWW

The IWW was the Union unlike any other at that time, founded in 1905. It sought to organise all workers, regardless of race, nationality, gender, craft or industry into one big union. We give an introduction to them in our podcast episode 6, also with Peter Cole. Fletcher is a part of this urban black milieu, but he wouldn't have lived in an all-black neighbourhood. People clustered together in South Philadelphia, which is where he lived for most of his life.

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