{"product_id":"the-popular-wobbly-selected-writings-of-t-bone-slim-hardback-9781517914950","title":"The Popular Wobbly; Selected Writings of T-Bone Slim (Hardback) 9781517914950","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Popular Wobbly\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eSelected Writings of T-Bone Slim\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eT-Bone Slim (Author), Owen Clayton (Edited by), Iain McIntyre (Edited by), David R. Roediger (Foreword by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781517914950\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 24 June 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e360 pages, 20 black and white illustrations\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm, 0.595 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"With switchblade wit, the great IWW provocateur T-Bone Slim skewered injustice and uplifted the working class.\" - Tom Morello \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \"T-Bone Slim was a really impressive person who should be much better known. This anthology shows that his words and ideas are still relevant today.\" - Noam Chomsky \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \"This is lost wisdom.\" - Billy Bragg \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \"[These writings have] the force of Hemingway plus the sting of Swift.\" - Lee Taylor \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \"It remains impossible to reproduce T-Bone Slim’s matchless wordplay and invention of language. . . . We believe his madcap humor and sober truths because his brilliance hews so closely to our everyday experiences.\" - David Roediger \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \"T-Bone Slim wrote the way an arsonist sets fires.\" - Franklin Rosemont \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \"T-Bone Slim lived his life in North America, but he created a world of his own. This world was rooted in the harsh realities of migrant workers’ lives, but at the same time it was a world of fantasy, black humor, and language play, free from time and place. This world is just as alive and recognizable today as it was in his time.\" - Kirsti Salmi-Niklander \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \"[T-Bone Slim] was the laureate of the logging camps.\" - Harvey O’Connor \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe first critical edition of the writings of the prolific radical workers’ newspaper columnist and musician who rode the rails during the Great Depression\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Popular Wobbly\u003c\/i\u003e brings together a wide selection of writings by T-Bone Slim, the most popular and talented writer belonging to the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). Slim wrote humorous, polemical pieces, engaging with topics like labor and class injustice, which were mostly published in IWW publications from 1920 until his death in 1942. Although relatively little is known about Slim, editors Owen Clayton and Iain McIntyre coalesce the latest research on this enigmatic character to create a vivid portrait that adds valuable context for the array of writings assembled here.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Known as “the laureate of the logging camps,” Slim also composed numerous songs that have been performed and recorded by Pete Seeger, Utah Phillips, and Candie Carawan, who in 1960 updated Slim’s song “The Popular Wobbly” with Civil Rights–era lyrics. Slim’s witticisms, sayings, and exhortations (“Wherever you find injustice, the proper form of politeness is attack”; “Only the poor break laws-the rich evade them”) were widely discussed among fellow hobos across the “jungle” campfires that dotted the railways, and some even transcribed his commentary on boxcars that traveled the country. Yet despite Slim’s importance and fame during his lifetime, his work disappeared from public view almost immediately after his death.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Popular Wobbly\u003c\/i\u003e is the first critical edition of Slim’s work and also a significant contribution to literature about working-class writers, the radical labor movement, and the history and culture of nomadism and precarity. With this publication, Slim’s rediscovered writings can once again inspire artists and activists to march and agitate for a more just and equitable world. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e Contents\u003cbr\u003e Foreword, David R. Roediger\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Mysteries of a Hobo’s Life, Owen Clayton and Iain McIntyre\u003cbr\u003e Editors’ Note \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Selected Writings of T-Bone Slim \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 1919–1921\u003cbr\u003e Only a Mouse in Jail\u003cbr\u003e The Popular Wobbly\u003cbr\u003e An Earfull\u003cbr\u003e Just before the Panic, Mother!\u003cbr\u003e Twenty Years\u003cbr\u003e My Respects-Apology\u003cbr\u003e Soup Lines\u003cbr\u003e Mysteries of a Hobo’s Life\u003cbr\u003e Half-and-Half\u003cbr\u003e Headin’ In\u003cbr\u003e Headin’ In \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 1922\u003cbr\u003e The Lumberjack’s Prayer\u003cbr\u003e Lots of Sympathy but No Help\u003cbr\u003e An Experience\u003cbr\u003e Sulphur and Molasses\u003cbr\u003e Overalls\u003cbr\u003e The Stuff Heroes Are Made Of\u003cbr\u003e Normalcy Has Arrived\u003cbr\u003e Das Kapital\u003cbr\u003e The Power of These Two Hands\u003cbr\u003e Consistently Speaking\u003cbr\u003e Nosebags \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 1923\u003cbr\u003e Best People\u003cbr\u003e T-Bone Slim Discusses\u003cbr\u003e Between These Two\u003cbr\u003e Unfinished Business\u003cbr\u003e Speed of the Tongue\u003cbr\u003e War\u003cbr\u003e T-Bone Slim Discusses: The Off-Set\u003cbr\u003e Golf\u003cbr\u003e T-Bone Slim Extends Himself to Discuss Education\u003cbr\u003e T-Bone Slim Discusses: Sample Camps\u003cbr\u003e Off Colors\u003cbr\u003e Odds and Ends\u003cbr\u003e All I Know\u003cbr\u003e The Whole Hog: Of Emotions Raised by Charity\u003cbr\u003e Prepare for the Worst\u003cbr\u003e Must or Not-to-Must, or Freaks of Nature\u003cbr\u003e Sweet Charity\u003cbr\u003e Walking with the Dead\u003cbr\u003e Stand without Hitching\u003cbr\u003e An Eighty Year Boy\u003cbr\u003e Early History\u003cbr\u003e Starving amidst Too Much \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 1924\u003cbr\u003e Mr. Hammond Deggs\u003cbr\u003e T-Bone Slim Discusses a Peace Plan\u003cbr\u003e Some Star! (The Solidarity of Desperation)\u003cbr\u003e I See, Says I\u003cbr\u003e Rights vs. Plights\u003cbr\u003e Mostly Song\u003cbr\u003e Indiana Moon\u003cbr\u003e Don’t Threaten\u003cbr\u003e Rock of Ages\u003cbr\u003e T-Bone Slim Discusses: Safety First\u003cbr\u003e T-Bone Slim Discusses\u003cbr\u003e Bugs and Fords\u003cbr\u003e True to Form\u003cbr\u003e T-Bone Slim Discusses: Discrimination\u003cbr\u003e Interlocking\u003cbr\u003e An Earfull \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 1925\u003cbr\u003e Oranges\u003cbr\u003e To My Friend\u003cbr\u003e The Passing Show\u003cbr\u003e Cross Word Puzzle\u003cbr\u003e Industrial Unionism\u003cbr\u003e The United Affront\u003cbr\u003e From Murder to Re-Action\u003cbr\u003e Beseech and Collect\u003cbr\u003e T-Bone Slim Says: Figures Lie\u003cbr\u003e T-Bone Slim Discusses: Chop Suey\u003cbr\u003e T-Bone Slim Discusses\u003cbr\u003e T-Bone Slim Discusses: War\u003cbr\u003e Shortcuts \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 1926\u003cbr\u003e Hall of Fame\u003cbr\u003e T-Bone Slim Discusses: Wry-Bread-\u003cbr\u003e Go or Melt\u003cbr\u003e T-Bone Slim Discusses the Laughing Dog\u003cbr\u003e Information\u003cbr\u003e T-Bone Slim Discusses: How Do They Do It\u003cbr\u003e Reporting the Reports\u003cbr\u003e Taxing Our Spirit\u003cbr\u003e The Trend\u003cbr\u003e A Restaurant Is No Stronger Than Its Weakest Coffee\u003cbr\u003e Now-a-Days\u003cbr\u003e Boneyard \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 1927\u003cbr\u003e Boneyard\u003cbr\u003e Concessionaires?\u003cbr\u003e “Origin of Fatal Explosion Baffles All Investigation”\u003cbr\u003e Boneyard\u003cbr\u003e Rough Logic: Seeing’s Believing\u003cbr\u003e Razzpectability!\u003cbr\u003e Untitled\u003cbr\u003e Untitled \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 1928–1929\u003cbr\u003e Boneyard\u003cbr\u003e That “Triple Threat”\u003cbr\u003e Passing the Plate\u003cbr\u003e Untitled\u003cbr\u003e Junk, or Close Quarters\u003cbr\u003e “Yes”-Men\u003cbr\u003e How Poems Are Made\u003cbr\u003e Work versus Ultra Violet\u003cbr\u003e Psycholeragising Wealth-and Time\u003cbr\u003e The Power of Tears\u003cbr\u003e Long Island Sound\u003cbr\u003e The Taste That Tells\u003cbr\u003e Put a Head on It \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 1930\u003cbr\u003e Where Lies Safety?\u003cbr\u003e The Dizzy Race\u003cbr\u003e A Ghost Story\u003cbr\u003e Looking Things Over\u003cbr\u003e “Sundownitis”\u003cbr\u003e It Do Seem So-\u003cbr\u003e A Peach of a Story\u003cbr\u003e T-Bone Slim Takes to the Air, or Saved in the Nick of Time\u003cbr\u003e Elastic Transportation\u003cbr\u003e A Survey\u003cbr\u003e Measured Tread\u003cbr\u003e A Touching Story\u003cbr\u003e On Popular Sanitation \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 1931–1932\u003cbr\u003e Three Bottles\u003cbr\u003e Say It with Flowers\u003cbr\u003e Slim Is Dissatisfied with His Looks\u003cbr\u003e Slim Gets Nervous\u003cbr\u003e A Mosquito’s Lunch\u003cbr\u003e “Will There Be Another War?”\u003cbr\u003e Roosevelt Was Right\u003cbr\u003e Raising a Family\u003cbr\u003e What Was in the Wrapper?\u003cbr\u003e The Hybrid\u003cbr\u003e Thumbs Down\u003cbr\u003e Untitled\u003cbr\u003e Race Hatred\u003cbr\u003e That’s That!\u003cbr\u003e Side Door Pullman Philosopher \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 1933–1936\u003cbr\u003e T-Bone Economics\u003cbr\u003e Untitled Article\u003cbr\u003e Untitled Manuscript Notes\u003cbr\u003e Resurrection\u003cbr\u003e Untitled Manuscript Notes\u003cbr\u003e Chinese Wisecracks\u003cbr\u003e Extemporaneous Bath\u003cbr\u003e Extra! T. B. Slim’s Golden Discovery Cures Everything!\u003cbr\u003e Untitled Manuscript Notes\u003cbr\u003e It Should Be Labor Day \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 1937–1939\u003cbr\u003e T-Bone Slim Takes a Look at the Show\u003cbr\u003e Why Ask the Boss for Recognition\u003cbr\u003e Sit-Down Strikes Too Good to Stop\u003cbr\u003e The Movie Stars-and a Picket Line\u003cbr\u003e Charity Covers a Multitude of Transgressions!\u003cbr\u003e Put the Boss in Overalls, Says T-Bone Slim\u003cbr\u003e The Purest Ray Serene\u003cbr\u003e T-Bone Slim Calls for a Housecleaning\u003cbr\u003e The Best of a Bad Bargain Is Plenty Tough\u003cbr\u003e Supplying Arms and a Matter of Business Ethics\u003cbr\u003e Street Beggars\u003cbr\u003e Private Letter\u003cbr\u003e When Privates Fight War by Telephone\u003cbr\u003e One Man Show Would Please Our Parasites\u003cbr\u003e We Don’t Want Dictatorship of Any Color \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 1940–1942\u003cbr\u003e Nobody Is Shooting at the Rulers\u003cbr\u003e Should Indians Have Registered the Foreigners?\u003cbr\u003e How Slim Brought Peace to Frazee\u003cbr\u003e Masters Start War but Won’t Stay to Fight\u003cbr\u003e Don’t Stop to Rest on Dead Center\u003cbr\u003e Politicians Will Squirm after the War\u003cbr\u003e Warning of Cannon Fodder Shortage for War of 1960\u003cbr\u003e Produce for Use and Peace Will Come at Last\u003cbr\u003e I Didn’t Know It Was Loaded\u003cbr\u003e Yes, Labor Is Partly to Blame\u003cbr\u003e Responses to T-Bone Slim\u003cbr\u003e To T-Bone Slim\u003cbr\u003e George Baker\u003cbr\u003e T-Bone Slim Ill\u003cbr\u003e “Editor Worker”\u003cbr\u003e Why No News from Our “T-Bone Slim”?\u003cbr\u003e Sam Murray\u003cbr\u003e A Reader Appreciates Our T-Bone Slim\u003cbr\u003e Interviewing T-Bone Slim\u003cbr\u003e Covami\u003cbr\u003e Foes Recognize Power of Our Inimitable Columnist, T-Bone Slim\u003cbr\u003e Hobo Poet\u003cbr\u003e Anonymous\u003cbr\u003e Work People’s College Youngsters Study and Frolic\u003cbr\u003e O.K.L.\u003cbr\u003e A Torch for T-Bone Slim\u003cbr\u003e Floyd Hoke-Miller\u003cbr\u003e Yours for the IWW\u003cbr\u003e “Old Nick”\u003cbr\u003e Slim’s Obituary\u003cbr\u003e Homage to T-Bone Slim\u003cbr\u003e Franklin Rosemont\u003cbr\u003e A Man Called America\u003cbr\u003e Ville-Juhani Sutinen\u003cbr\u003e Themes in the Writing of T-Bone Slim\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Further Reading\u003cbr\u003e Index \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Univ Of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52619258495256,"sku":"9781517914950","price":71.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-popular-wobbly-selected-writings-of-t-bone-slim-hardback-9781517914950","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}