{"product_id":"knights-across-the-atlantic-the-knights-of-labor-in-britain-and-ireland-9781781383186","title":"Knights Across the Atlantic: The Knights of Labor","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Noble and Holy Order of the Knights of Labor, the first national movement of the American working class, began in Philadelphia in 1869. Millions of Americans, white and black, men and women, became Knights between that date and 1917. But the Knights also spread beyond the borders of the United States and even beyond North America. \u003ci\u003eKnights Across the Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e tells for the first time the full story of the Knights of Labor in Britain and Ireland, where they operated between 1883 and the end of the century. British and Irish Knights drew on the resources of their vast Order to establish a chain of branches through England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland that numbered more than 10,000 members at its peak. They drew on the fraternal ritual, industrial tactics, organisational models, and political concerns of their American Order and interpreted them in British and Irish conditions. They faced many of the same enemies, including hostile employers and rival trade unions. Unlike their American counterparts they organised only a handful of women at most. But British and Irish Knights left a profound imprint on subsequent British labour history. They helped inspire the British “New Unionists” of the 1890s. They influenced the movement for working-class politics, independent of Liberals and Conservatives alike, that soon led to the British Labour Party. \u003ci\u003eKnights Across the Atlantic \u003c\/i\u003ebrings all these themes together. It provides new insights into relationships between class and gender, and places the Knights of Labor squarely at the heart of British and Irish as well as American history at the end of the nineteenth century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReviews 'Well-researched and well-argued, the author extends our understanding of the U.S.-based Knights of Labor to an international arena, while all the time offering a judicious, original interpretation of comparative labor and political development.' Leon Fink, University of Illinois\u003cbr\u003e'This is a further offering in Neville Kirk's excellent 'Studies in Labour History' series. In this book comparisons of American and British trade unions are made and the issue of American exceptionalism is addressed in a refreshing and engaging way. [...] In his well-researched book Steven Parfitt has extended our knowledge of the Knights of Labor and given us valuable information about an important transnational development of which very little has been written.'Pat Kelly, \u003ci\u003eScottish Labour History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: The World of the Knights of Labor\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1 Origins\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2 The Rise of a Transnational Movement\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e3 Organisation, Culture and Gender\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e4 The Knights in Industry\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e5 The Knights and Politics\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e6 The Knights and the Unions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e7 The Fall of a Transnational Movement\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eConclusion: The Knights of Labor in Britain and Ireland\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAppendix: List of Known Assemblies of the Knights of Labor in England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"Liverpool University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042205008215,"sku":"9781781383186","price":43.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781781383186.jpg?v=1750953438","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/knights-across-the-atlantic-the-knights-of-labor-in-britain-and-ireland-9781781383186","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}