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John Griffith "Jack" London (born John Griffith Chaney,January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916)was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist. John Griffith "Jack" London (born John Griffith Chaney,January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916)was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist. A pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction, he was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone, including science fiction. Some of his most famous works include The Call of the Wild and White Fang, both set in the Klondike Gold Rush, as well as the short stories "To Build a Fire", "An Odyssey of the North", and "Love of Life". He also wrote of the South Pacific in such stories as "The Pearls of Parlay" and "The Heathen", and of the San Francisco Bay area in The Sea Wolf. London was part of the radical literary group "The Crowd" in San Francisco and a passionate advocate of unionization, socialism, and the rights of workers. He wrote several powerful works dealing with these topics, such as his dystopian novel The Iron Heel, his non-fiction exposé The People of the Abyss, and The War of the Classes.

War of the classes by Jack London. He wrote this book while living in Oakland, California as a Socialist. It explores his theories of government control and economic globalization. Any profits generated from the sale of this book will go towards the Freeriver Community project, a project designed to promote harmonious community living and well-being in the world. To learn more about the Freeriver project please visit the website - www.freerivercommunity.com

London grew up in poverty, earning a living through various legal and illegal means. He was a sailor and took part in the Klondike gold rush. The Call of the Wild, the classic story of sled-dog Buck brought him instant celebrity and established his readership to this day. Self-educated, London was heavily influenced by the works of Darwin, Marx, and Nietzsche. This, along with his earlier experiences converted him to socialism as he explains in this volume. Contents: - The Class Struggle - The Tramp - The Scab - The Question of the Maximum - A Review - Wanted: A New Law of Development - How I Became a Socialist

Jack London was one of the first writers to earn a living in part from his writings in commercial fiction magazines. London became a socialist and his writings reflect this change in his political views. London wrote War of the Classes while living in California. The collection of essays expounds on his theories of government control and economic globalization. Essays included in this book are: The class struggle -- The tramp -- The scab -- The question of the maximum -- A review -- Wanted: a new law of development -- How I became a socialist

2014 paperback edition. Best known for his adventure fiction novels, Jack London was also a passionate advocate for the rights of workers and social reform, writing several powerful works dealing with these topics based on his rational observations of the struggles facing the people at the bottom of the social pit, and the issues of labor, capital, and wealth inequality that are still applicable today.

War of the Classes is a classic collection of political essays by Jack London that includes the followoing titles: The class struggle -- The tramp -- The scab -- The question of the maximum -- A review -- Wanted: a new law of development -- How I became a socialistJohn Griffith "Jack" London (born John Griffith Chaney, January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916) was an American author, journalist, and social activist. A pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction, he was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone.Some of his most famous works include The Call of the Wild and White Fang, both set in the Klondike Gold Rush, as well as the short stories "To Build a Fire", "An Odyssey of the North", and "Love of Life". He also wrote of the South Pacific in such stories as "The Pearls of Parlay" and "The Heathen", and of the San Francisco Bay area in The Sea Wolf.London was part of the radical literary group, "The Crowd", in San Francisco, and a passionate advocate of unionization, socialism, and the rights of workers. He wrote several powerful works dealing with these topics, such as his dystopian novel The Iron Heel, his non-fiction exposé The People of the Abyss, and The War of the Classes.Jack London's mother, Flora Wellman, was the fifth and youngest child of Pennsylvania Canal builder Marshall Wellman and his first wife, Eleanor Garrett Jones. Marshall Wellman was descended from Thomas Wellman, an early Puritan settler in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.[7] Flora left Ohio and moved to the Pacific coast when her father remarried after her mother died. In San Francisco, Flora worked as a music teacher and spiritualist, claiming to channel the spirit of a Sauk chief Black Hawk.Biographer Clarice Stasz and others believe London's father was astrologer William Chaney. Flora Wellman was living with Chaney in San Francisco when she became pregnant. Whether Wellman and Chaney were legally married is unknown. Most San Francisco civil records were destroyed by the extensive fires that followed the 1906 earthquake; nobody knows what name appeared on her son's birth certificate. Stasz notes that in his memoirs, Chaney refers to London's mother Flora Wellman as having been his "wife"; he also cites an advertisement in which Flora called herself "Florence Wellman Chaney."According to Flora Wellman's account, as recorded in the San Francisco Chronicle of June 4, 1875, Chaney demanded that she have an abortion. When she refused, he disclaimed responsibility for the child. In desperation, she shot herself. She was not seriously wounded, but she was temporarily deranged. After giving birth, Flora turned the baby over for care to Virginia Prentiss, an African-American woman and former slave. She was a major maternal figure throughout London's life. Late in 1876, Flora Wellman married John London, a partially disabled Civil War veteran, and brought her baby John, later known as Jack, to live with the newly married couple. The family moved around the San Francisco Bay Area before settling in Oakland, where London completed public grade school.In 1897, when he was 21 and a student at the University of California, Berkeley, London searched for and read the newspaper accounts of his mother's suicide attempt and the name of his biological father. He wrote to William Chaney, then living in Chicago. Chaney responded that he could not be London's father because he was impotent; he casually asserted that London's mother had relations with other men and averred that she had slandered him when she said he insisted on an abortion. Chaney concluded by saying that he was more to be pitied than London. London was devastated by his father's letter; in the months following, he quit school at Berkeley and went to the Klondike during the gold rush boom.

"Especially timely....Discusses the relations of the great federations of labor to each other and to the government of the nation. He tells us of the conditions of society - the sharp line dawn between capitalist and workingman, almost impossible to cross, which causes the struggle that is going on between the two classes....Jack London has the courage of his convictions; few men dare to say so plainly what they think of existing conditions and their outcome. Mr. London reasons clearly, and endeavors to show us just where the danger of the future lies, where we as a nation may stumble and fall, and how it is possible to get around the danger. He points out the likelihood of degeneration 'when the common man's day shall have arrived.' for he asks 'since he (the common man) is bent upon dragging down the bourgeoisie and reconstructing society, can he so reconstruct that a premium, in some unguessed way or other, will still be laid upon the strong and efficient, so that the human type will continue to develop?' The book is written with a purpose, strongly and vividly. It is not pessimistic, but tells the truth, in an effort to stimulate the world to think seriously and clearly, and then to act." -Book News "In vigorous and entertaining fashion exhibit an ardent socialist's views of various phases of existing industrial conditions without attempting to present doctrine in systematic form, the book is frankly a contribution to the literature of socialist propaganda....To Mr. London, socialism is a force 'distinctly revolutionary, and in scope and depth vastly more tremendous than any revolution that has ever occurred in the history of the world - an organized, international and revolutionary movement.'" -The Survey "It is Mr. London's purpose, he declares in his preface, to 'enlighten, to some slight degree,' the minds of a few capitalists. It is an interesting thought-provoking volume." -The Academy "Is no whit inferior in the vigor of its style and the sweep and rapid movement of its thought to any of Jack London's work." -Bookman "Some of Mr London's best and most lasting work is to be found in these pages." -Independent "Develops the socialist attitude on modern social antagonisms in his characteristically forcible and striking style." -The New York Times Contents: Preface The Class Struggle The Tramp The Scab The Question of the Maximum A Review Wanted: A New Land of Development How I Became a Socialist

Jack London was one of the most prolific American writers of the early 20th century, and remains one of the most beloved, but while his novels have remained continuously in print for a century, his short stories and essays have been much harder to find. In these essays London justifies his socialist beliefs in a logical yet highly personal and passionate way.