Review of \u3ci\u3eOil, Wheat, and Wobblies: The Industrial Workers of the World in Oklahoma, 1905-1930\u3c/i\u3e by Nigel Anthony Sellars

The strength of Sellars\u27s work is that it draws attention to the activities of the IWW at a local level during the least understood period of its history. This is particularly true of the book\u27s focus on the A WOo A pioneer in the development of some of the IWW\u27s most important strategies during this period, the A WO has received little previous attention. While Sellars illuminates the local, his work runs into trouble in its treatment of larger struggles within the IWW, the relative importance of the IWW\u27s industrial unions, and the movement\u27s culture. For example, although the book is replete with allusions to syndicalism-assertions of a labor based syndicalism on the part of the IWW in Oklahoma and agrarian syndicalism by tenant farmers- Sellars provides no analysis of syndicalism or its specific contributions to industrial unionism, nor does he treat the scholarship on syndicalism and the IWW