Workingmen's Democracy : The Knights of Labor and American Politics
ISBN: 9780252054464
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / University of Illinois Press
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Subjects: Political Science; Business/ Management;

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

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 .

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