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Joe Hill

1879 - 1915

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Joe Hill (October 7, 1879 – November 19, 1915), born Joel Emmanuel Hägglund and also known as Joseph Hillström, was a Swedish-American labor activist, songwriter, and member of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW, familiarly called the "Wobblies"). A native Swedish speaker, he learned English during the early 1900s, while working various jobs from New York to San Francisco. Hill, an immigrant worker frequently facing unemployment and underemployment, became a popular songwriter and cartoonist for the union. His songs include "The Preacher and the Slave" (in which he coined the phrase "pie in the sky"), "The Tramp", "There Is Power in a Union", "The Rebel Girl", and "Casey Jones—the Union Scab", which express the harsh and combative life of itinerant workers, and call for workers to organize their efforts to improve working conditions. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Joe Hill is the 173rd most popular social activist (up from 331st in 2019), the 204th most popular biography from Sweden (up from 417th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Swedish Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Joe Hill ranks 173 out of 840. Before him are Alexander Pechersky, Rigoberta Menchú, Leila Khaled, Meng Huo, Gaius Julius Civilis, and Gerda Christian. After him are Max Mosley, Otoya Yamaguchi, Maria Spiridonova, Paul Watson, Chico Mendes, and Paul Schäfer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1879, Joe Hill ranks 51. Before him are Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, Boris Savinkov, Adolf Strauss, Franz Reichelt, Aleksandar Stamboliyski, and Periyar E. V. Ramasamy. After him are Frederick Griffith, Joseph Avenol, Nikolai Medtner, Aimo Cajander, Hisaichi Terauchi, and Kartini. Among people deceased in 1915, Joe Hill ranks 19. Before him are Arthur Auwers, Émile Waldteufel, Sergei Taneyev, Anthony Wilding, Armand Peugeot, and Michel Bréal. After him are Anton von Werner, Karl Goldmark, Archduke Ferdinand Karl of Austria, William Wallace Denslow, Saitō Hajime, and Nadežda Petrović.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Joe Hill ranks 204 out of 1,879. Before him are Hans Blix (1928), Hugo Alfvén (1872), Gunilla Bielke (1568), Per Gessle (1959), Axel Fredrik Cronstedt (1722), and Gösta Mittag-Leffler (1846). After him are Michael Nyqvist (1960), Carl Michael Bellman (1740), Oskar Backlund (1846), Inge the Younger (1100), Birger, King of Sweden (1280), and Per Teodor Cleve (1840).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Sweden

Among social activists born in Sweden, Joe Hill ranks 3. Before him are Gustav I of Sweden (1496), and Axel Munthe (1857). After him are Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson (1390), Sophie Adlersparre (1823), Greta Thunberg (2003), Katarina Taikon (1932), Gertrud Adelborg (1853), Ivan Betskoy (1704), and Isabelle Axelsson (2001).

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