Cover of Workingmen's Democracy

Book 1985

Workingmen's Democracy

Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Language
English
Published
1985
  • Encyclopaedias & Reference Works
  • General
  • History
  • Knights of Labor
  • Political activity
  • United States
  • Working class

THE LABOR MOVEMENT of the Gilded Age, not unlike its nineteenth-century British counterpart, spoke a "language of class" that was "as much political as economic."