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Article Evaluation: Industrial Workers of the World

The article does seem to be relevant to the topic and describes in detail the union of labor workers coming together organized by the industry they work for. It explains the oppression that they faced from the U.S. government just as women faced when working in the scientific fields. Regardless of their success and achievements, they were discredited and put to the side. I feel that this is the relation between these labor union workers and women and technology. One thing that i would say distracted me was the fact that the article could not state an exact number of members in the union due to the fact that members would join in large quantities all at one time. I would consider this article neutral in regards to how they describe membership decline within the labor union. The way they describe it comes off as more factual than biased towards a particular side. The article describes what other labor groups thought of each other and their conflicts. It does not describe these conflicts as if it is their own opinion. The article also states that the government was responsible for the decline of the labor union memberships because they began to crack down on radical and social groups. After reading the wikipedia article and checking the references at the bottom of the page, all of the links do seem to be pretty reliable sources and do support the information stated in the wikipedia article. Many of the links lead to history websites and sites based on workers rights. There is too much info to be able to cross reference it with all of the sources that are provided but i was able to verify a number of bits of info from the links that were given with the info that was presented in the wikipedia article. As i said before, the websites don’t seem too biased. Some of the sites stick to specific concepts but do seem to be more factual than opinionated. I believe that overall the sources are neutral and focus on the historical fact of labor unions and industrial workers. Many of these sources go as far back as the early 1900s but there are also a great number of them that are as recent as a year ago. I feel that having sources that stretch from the beginning of these labor movements to modern time is essential and imperative to the knowledge shared within the wikipedia article. It is good to be able to have info based on the evolution of labor workers from the beginning of labor unions to now. The form of these labor unions were active active back then before they began to decline due to several factors which included, government involvement, influence, and disputes between a number of different labor unions that might have shared in similar goals not maybe not perhaps the same morals. Many labor unions, especially IWW believed in a concept referred to as One Big Union and believed in united workers being able to elect their employers to ensure their work conditions and wages. They even argue for some forms of self employment to ensure that workers are treated fairly. What i’ve gathered from reading this article, i feel that it can be considered a reliable source of information.