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Trade 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 Review

Table of Contents
Preface 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

Workingmens Democracy

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      Publisher University of Illinois Press
      Published 1 July 1985
      ISBN-13 9780252012563
      978-0252012563
      ISBN-10 0252012569
      Also in:
      Industrial relations, occupational health

      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Trade 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 Review

      Table of Contents
      Preface 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

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