Reviews for Voice of the Marketplace: A History of the National Petroleum Council

The average rating for Voice of the Marketplace: A History of the National Petroleum Council based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-09-16 00:00:00 Robert Ferraro Rosemont's book proves a not-so-little little pipe bomb. The full weight of the affect it will have had on my life will only be clarified by time, but I imagine it will be considerable. Less a book about Joe Hill, about whom biographical information is dispiritingly scant, this is a book about The Industrial Workers of the World union (the One Big Union) framed around the role Joe Hill played in it as organizer, songwriter, poet, commentator, cartoonist, card-carrying member, and martyr. Rosemont totally convincingly argues that the IWW was far and away the most inspirational and ripe-for-emulation American emancipatory labour movement of the first half of the twentieth century, with tendrils that reach beyond. It strikes me now, having read this exemplary work, that, going forward, I will be unable to engage the world without directly engaging the way labour and toil are disastrous forces of alienation in our world, and that the antidote is in solidarity, art, humour, inclusivity, and collective refusal. I am on fire w/ this thing!

Review # 2 was written on 2019-08-17 00:00:00 William Baker Excellent resource.