Description
Book SynopsisTrade Review"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 ReviewTable of ContentsPreface xi
1 Working-Class Radicalism in the Gilded Age: Defining a Political Culture 3
2 The Uses of Political Power: The Knights of Labor and the State 18
3 When Cleon Comes to Rule: Popular Organization and Political Development. Part 1: Rochester, New Hampshire 38
4 When Cleon Comes to Rule: Popular Organization and Political Development. Part 2: Rutland, Vermont 66
5 City-Building and Social Reform: Urban Workers within the Two-Party System, Kansas City, Kansas 112
6 Together but Unequal: Southern Knights and the Dilemmas of Race and Politics, Richmond, Virginia 149
7 Bullets and Ballots: Worker Mobilization and the Path to Municipal Socialism, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 178
8 Labor, Party Politics, and American Exceptionalism 219
Selected Bibliography: Primary Sources 234
Index 239
