"Oil, Wheat, & Wobblies:
The Industrial Workers of the World in Oklahoma, 1905-1930

by Nigel Anthony Sellars

The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), a radical labor union, played an important role in Oklahoma from the founding of the union in 1905 until its demise in 1930. Nigel Sellars describes union efforts to organize migratory harvest hands and oil-field workers. The rise and fall of the IWW in Oklahoma explains much about the failure of the labor movement in the U.S. during the 1920s. Sellars is instructor of history at the University of Oklahoma."