
Workingmen's Democracy
The Knights of Labor and American Politics
The acclaimed history of the labor powerhouse and its challenge of the Gilded Age
Paper – $23
978-0-252-01256-3
eBook – $19.95
978-0-252-05446-4
Publication Date
Paperback: 01/01/1985
About the Book
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.Reviews
"The pick of a growing crop of studies on the American working class."--The Nation"An important work, the best of several recent volumes on the Knights."--American Historical Review