Thursday, January 23
7:00pm online at fishtrap.org
Founded in 1905, the Industrial Workers of the World captured the imagination of a generation with its fiery rhetoric, daring tactics, and program of revolutionary industrial unionism. Join Aaron Goings, author of The Red Coast: Radicalism and Anti-Radicalism in Southwest Washington and The Port of Missing Men: Billy Gohl, Labor, and Brutal Times in the Pacific Northwest for an online discussion of the times and people who led to this movement.
Dr. Aaron Goings is a Professor of History at Peninsula College in Port Angeles. He spent most of the last 15 years a tenured history professor at Saint Martin’s University; he also was a Fulbright Scholar in Finland and a senior researcher at the Institute of Advanced Social Research in Tampere University in Finland. Aaron has written three presses, including The Port of Missing Men: Billy Gohl, Labor, and Brutal Times in the Pacific Northwest with the University of Washington Press. His fourth book will be published by the UW Press in the summer of 2025.
