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Workingmen's Democracy Leon Fink

Workingmen's Democracy By Leon Fink

Workingmen's Democracy by Leon Fink

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Workingmen's Democracy: The Knights of Labor and American Politics by Leon Fink

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

Workingmen's Democracy 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

About Leon Fink

Leon Fink is Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His books include The Long Gilded Age: American Capitalism and the Lessons of a New World Order and Workers in Hard Times: A Long View of Economic Crises.

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

Additional information

GOR009444692
9780252012563
0252012569
Workingmen's Democracy: The Knights of Labor and American Politics by Leon Fink
Leon Fink
Working Class in American History
Used - Very Good
Paperback
University of Illinois Press
19850701
272
Runner-up for <DIV>Runner-up in both the John H. Dunning Prize and Albert J. Beveridge Award competitions</DIV> 1985
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