This essay is based on the introductory chapter from a collection edited by Owen Clayton and Iain McIntyre entitled The Popular Wobbly: Selected Writings of T-Bone Slim (University of Minnesota Press, 2025).
Owen Clayton is a Senior Lecturer in English literature at the University of Lincoln in England and the author of Vagabonds, Tramps, and Hobos: The Literature and Culture of U.S. Transiency, 1890–1940 and Literature and Photography in Transition, 1850–1915.
Iain McIntyre is an honorary fellow with the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies, University of Melbourne, a researcher at social change website commonslibrary.org and author of Environmental Blockades: Obstructive Direct Action and the History of the Environmental Movement.
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