Grand Master Workman : Terence Powderly and the Knights of Labor / / Craig Phelan
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| Autore: |
Phelan Craig <1958->
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| Titolo: |
Grand Master Workman : Terence Powderly and the Knights of Labor / / Craig Phelan
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| Pubblicazione: | Westport, Conn., : Greenwood Press, c2000 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (303 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 331.88/092 |
| B | |
| Soggetto topico: | Labor unions - United States - History |
| Labor movement - United States - History | |
| Radicalism - United States - History | |
| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-288) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 A Child of Industrial America: January 1849 - September 1879 -- Chapter 2 Building a National Movement: September 1879 - September 1881 -- Chapter 3 Growth and Its Discontents: September 1881 - September 1883 -- Chapter 4 A Multiplicity of Goals: September 1883 - September 1885 -- Chapter 5 The Great Upheaval: September 1885 - September 1888 -- Chapter 6 Failure of a Dream: September 1888 - June 1924 -- Conclusion -- Selected Bibliography -- Index. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Grand Master Workman |
| ISBN: | 9781567508840 |
| 1567508847 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910959382303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Contributions in labor studies ; ; no. 55.