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The IWW and Bohemians: The Case of the Paterson Pageant
Officially, the International Workers of the World (IWW) regarded the working class as sufficient unto itself. In the class struggle, the only relationship that mattered was the antagonistic one with the bosses. Middle-class radicals could not advance, and might retard, the key struggle at the point of production in the mills and mines. That was the theory. But for a brief period in 1912 and 1913, the IWW's practice became far richer than its theory as it developed a cross-class collaboration with bohemians, artists, and intellectuals. This collaboration between working class activists and middle-class bohemians became one of the IWW's most important and provocative legacies
Article, 2005
WorkingUSA, 8, September 2005, 565
2005