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A bustling crowd of protestors, mostly men in suits and top hats, holding protest signs.
Industrial Workers of the World demonstration, New York City (1914).

Industrial Workers of the World is founded.

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Industrial Workers of the World demonstration, New York City (1914).

Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), an international labor union, is founded in Chicago. The IWW emerges as a response to the perceived unwillingness of many existing labor organizations to name capitalism as the central problem impacting workers' rights.