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The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) is a union of wage workers which was formed in Chicago in 1905 by militant unionists and their supporters due to anger over the conservatism, philosophy, and craft-based structure of the American Federation of Labor (AFL).
The IWW uses any and all tactics that will get the results sought with the least expenditure of time and energy. It aims to paralyze the employers by strikes, sabotage, shorter work day, and direct action, and rejects any agreements with them.
The philosophy and tactics of the IWW are described as "revolutionary industrial unionism", with ties to socialist, [6] syndicalist, and anarchist labor movements.
The best statements of the ideology of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) are to be found in the organizations's 1905 Manifesto, and in the preamble to the IWW constitution, as amended in 1908.
As a revolutionary the Industrial Workers of the World aims to use any and all tactics that will get the results sought with the least expenditure of time and energy. The tactics used are determined solely by the power of the organization to make good in their use.
The IWW was formed in 1905 by a small group of dissident labor unionists. The philosophy of the union was that all workers in every industry should organize themselves as a class into “One Big Union” in order to take control of the means of production and work toward the workers’ commonwealth.
The ISEL was prominent in efforts to build industrial unions through mergers of existing trade unions and was at the forefront of the creation the National Union of Railwaymen and the Transport and General Workers Union.
