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Grand Master Workman

Craig Phelan
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      The Noble Order of the Knights of Labor was the most ambitious and significant labor organization of the Gilded Age. As the charismatic leader of this group, Terence Powderly was America's first nationally known labor leader, the first to achieve a high degree of recognition from working people, industrialists, and politicians across the continent. To most Americans, Powderly was the Knights of Labor. Based on an exhaustive examination of Powderly's voluminous correspondence, this book offers a critical analysis of Powderly's efforts to oversee the most spectacular experiment in class-wide solidarity ever undertaken.Phelan paints a sympathetic and probing portrait of a complex figure caught up in the whirlwind of local and national events. He details the challenges and pressures of labor leadership at a time when industrialization was convulsing the nation, and when the labor movement was struggling to build a viable national institution capable of creating a more egalitarian society. The national focus of this study helps to synthesize the numerous community studies written on the Knights in recent years and offers fresh perspectives on the ultimate meaning of the organization. It is the first detailed examination of the Knights' leadership since the Powderly and Hayes Papers have become available.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Craig Phelan EAN: 9780313309489 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 0 g HEIGHT: 0 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: ABC-CLIO DATE PUBLISHED: 2000-01-30 CITY: GENRE: HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies) WIDTH: 0 cm SPINE:

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      United States of America, USA, c 1500 onwards to present day, c 1940 to c 1949, Economic history, Industrial relations, occupational health and safety, History of the Americas

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      CRAIG PHELAN is Lecturer in American Studies at the University of Wales, Swansea. His other works include Divided Loyalties: the Public and Private Life of Labor Leader John Mitchell (1994) and William Green: Biography of a Labor Leader (1989).
      The Noble Order of the Knights of Labor was the most ambitious and significant labor organization of the Gilded Age. As the charismatic leader of this group, Terence Powderly was America's first nationally known labor leader, the first to achieve a high degree of recognition from working people, industrialists, and politicians across the continent. To most Americans, Powderly was the Knights of Labor. Based on an exhaustive examination of Powderly's voluminous correspondence, this book offers a critical analysis of Powderly's efforts to oversee the most spectacular experiment in class-wide solidarity ever undertaken.Phelan paints a sympathetic and probing portrait of a complex figure caught up in the whirlwind of local and national events. He details the challenges and pressures of labor leadership at a time when industrialization was convulsing the nation, and when the labor movement was struggling to build a viable national institution capable of creating a more egalitarian society. The national focus of this study helps to synthesize the numerous community studies written on the Knights in recent years and offers fresh perspectives on the ultimate meaning of the organization. It is the first detailed examination of the Knights' leadership since the Powderly and Hayes Papers have become available.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Craig Phelan EAN: 9780313309489 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 0 g HEIGHT: 0 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: ABC-CLIO DATE PUBLISHED: 2000-01-30 CITY: GENRE: HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies) WIDTH: 0 cm SPINE:

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      United States of America, USA, c 1500 onwards to present day, c 1940 to c 1949, Economic history, Industrial relations, occupational health and safety, History of the Americas

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      CRAIG PHELAN is Lecturer in American Studies at the University of Wales, Swansea. His other works include Divided Loyalties: the Public and Private Life of Labor Leader John Mitchell (1994) and William Green: Biography of a Labor Leader (1989).

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