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“With switchblade wit, the great IWW provocateur T-Bone Slim skewered injustice and uplifted the working class.” —Tom Morello   “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   “This is lost wisdom.” —Billy Bragg   “[These writings have] the force of Hemingway plus the sting of Swift.” —Lee Taylor   “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   “T-Bone Slim wrote the way an arsonist sets fires.” —Franklin Rosemont   “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   “[T-Bone Slim] was the laureate of the logging camps.” —Harvey O’Connor  

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T-Bone Slim (18821942), born Matti Valentinpoika Huhta, was a Finnish American humorist, columnist, poet, musician, hobo, and labor activist who was a prominent writer for the Industrial Workers of the World. Owen Clayton is senior lecturer in English literature at the University of Lincoln in England and author of Vagabonds, Tramps, and Hobos: The Literature and Culture of U.S. Transiency, 18901940 and Literature and Photography in Transition, 18501915. Iain McIntyre is honorary fellow with the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies, University of Melbourne; researcher at the Commons Social Change Library; and author of Environmental Blockades: Obstructive Direct Action and the History of the Environmental Movement. David R. Roediger is Foundation Professor of American Studies at the University of Kansas and author of The Sinking Middle Class: A Political History of Debt, Misery, and the Drift to the Right and The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class.

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