Workingmen's Democracy: The Knights of Labor and American PoliticsUniversity of Illinois Press, 1983 - 249 sider Focusing on the operation and influence of the Knights of Labor—the leading labor organization of the nineteenth century—Workingmen's Democracy explores the dreams, achievements, and failures of a movement that sought to renew the democratic potential of American institutions. Runner-up in both the John H. Dunning Prize and Albert J. Beveridge Award competitions |
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Preface | xi |
WorkingClass Radicalism in the Gilded Age Defining a Political Culture | 3 |
The Uses of Political Power The Knights of Labor and the State | 18 |
When Cleon Comes to Rule Popular Organization and Political Development Part I Rochester New Hampshire | 38 |
When Cleon Comes to Rule Popular Organization and Political Development Part II Rutland Vermont | 66 |
CityBuilding and Social Reform Urban Workers within the TwoParty System Kansas City Kansas | 112 |
Together but Unequal Southern Knights and the Dilemmas of Race and Politics Richmond Virginia | 149 |
Bullets and Ballots Worker Mobilization and the Path to Municipal Socialism Milwaukee Wisconsin | 178 |
Labor Party Politics and American Exceptionalism | 219 |
Primary Sources | 234 |
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