Break Their Haughty Power: Joe Murphy in the Heyday of the Wobblies: A Biographical Novel

by Eugene Nelson

Joe Murphy, chased out of his Missouri hometown by anti-Catholic bigots, hopped aboard a freight train and headed west for the wheat harvest. Within weeks, the 13-year-old Joe became a labor activist... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0910383316
• ISBN13: 9780910383318
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Ism Press
• Length: 367 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.2" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

Exciting adventure story about union organizing.

Break Their Haughty Power is one of my all-time favorite books. It makes you feel that you are there with the migrant workers in the 1920's. You can see why they would want a union like the IWW to deal with the lousy hand they had been dealt in life. It is very 3-dimensional, showing the problems and not just glorifying the union, which elevates it from propaganda to truly fine literature.