An Injury to One is An Injury to All

An Injury to One is An Injury to All

Labor Movement

The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) initially popularized the slogan, ”An injury to one is an injury to all,” during the early-1900s, a tumultuous period of labor strife across the U.S. The I.W.W. was a militant union that organized skilled and unskilled workers, men and women, white and non-white laborers into what they called "one big union."

Over time, the slogan has become a more generalized expression of the communal connection, collective power, or "solidarity," essential to labor organizing.

Industrial Workers of the World

Roz Payne

Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

ca. 1970s

Button

Physical Object