LEADER 04021nam 22007212 450 001 9910159441403321 005 20230621135825.0 010 $a1-78694-403-0 010 $a1-78138-353-7 035 $a(CKB)3710000001018982 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001659642 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781781383537 035 $a(OCoLC)1138073412 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse82850 035 $a(OCoLC)987452888 035 $a(ScCtBLL)cd8cf180-81fa-4127-9662-3452b1156707 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6898733 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4791372 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6898733 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/34185 035 $a(PPN)266617190 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001018982 100 $a20170307d2016|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aKnights across the Atlantic $ethe Knights of Labor in Britain and Ireland /$fSteven Parfitt$b[electronic resource] 210 $aLiverpool$cLiverpool University Press$d2017 210 1$aLiverpool :$cLiverpool University Press,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (viii, 260 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 225 1 $aStudies in labour history ;$v7 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Aug 2017). 311 $a1-78138-318-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 239-255) and index. 330 $aThe Noble and Holy Order of the Knights of Labor, the first national movement of the American working class, began in Philadelphia in 1869. Millions of Americans, white and black, men and women, became Knights between that date and 1917. But the Knights also spread beyond the borders of the United States and even beyond North America. Knights Across the Atlantic tells for the first time the full story of the Knights of Labor in Britain and Ireland, where they operated between 1883 and the end of the century. British and Irish Knights drew on the resources of their vast Order to establish a chain of branches through England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland that numbered more than 10,000 members at its peak. They drew on the fraternal ritual, industrial tactics, organisational models, and political concerns of their American Order and interpreted them in British and Irish conditions. They faced many of the same enemies, including hostile employers and rival trade unions. Unlike their American counterparts they organised only a handful of women at most. But British and Irish Knights left a profound imprint on subsequent British labour history. They helped inspire the British "New Unionists" of the 1890s. They influenced the movement for working-class politics, independent of Liberals and Conservatives alike, that soon led to the British Labour Party. Knights Across the Atlantic brings all these themes together. It provides new insights into relationships between class and gender, and places the Knights of Labor squarely at the heart of British and Irish as well as American history at the end of the nineteenth century. 410 0$aStudies in labour history (Liverpool University Press) ;$v7. 606 $aLabor unions$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aLabor unions$zIreland$xHistory$y19th century 607 $aGreat Britain$2fast 607 $aIreland$2fast 607 $aGrossbritannien$2gnd 607 $aIrland$2gnd 608 $aHistory.$2fast 610 $aHistory 610 $aLabour 610 $aLabor 610 $aKnights of Labor 610 $aSmethwick 610 $aTrade union 610 $aUnited States 610 $aWorking class 615 0$aLabor unions$xHistory 615 0$aLabor unions$xHistory 676 $a331.88/330941 700 $aParfitt$b Steven$0886690 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910159441403321 996 $aKnights Across the Atlantic$91980080 997 $aUNINA