syndicalist philosophy . The IWW not only had the generalized goal of uniting workers from all around the world, they also had many specific goals they wished to accomplish with the formation of this union. Specific goals of the IWW included increased wages, a shorter work day (8 hours), and better working conditions. During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the IWW also fought strongly against the militant rule of big business owners, in hopes to emancipate them from "wage slavery". In 1905, the founders of the IWW in Chicago fought to meet the challenge of fighting a consolidated group of big business owners with one union of all the workers of the world, a concentration of labor power, to meet a concentration of owner
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