| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 260 pages). |
| Series |
Studies in labour history ; 7 |
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Studies in labour history (Liverpool University Press) ; 7.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-255) and index. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Contents |
1: Origins -- 2: The rise of a transnational movement -- 3: Organisation, culture and gender -- 4: The Knights in industry -- 5: The Knights and politics -- 6: The Knights and the unions -- 7: The fall of a transnational movement -- Conclusion: the Knights of Labor in Britain and Ireland -- Appendix: List of known assemblies of the Knights of Labor in England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland. |
| Summary |
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. British and Irish Knights left a profound imprint on subsequent British labour history. They helped inspire the British "New Unionists" of the 1890s and 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 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. |
| Subject |
Knights of Labor.
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Knights of Labor. (OCoLC)fst00515587
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Knights of Labor (DE-588)4073530-8
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Labor unions -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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Labor unions -- Ireland -- History -- 19th century.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
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Humanities.
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History.
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History: earliest times to present day.
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Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900.
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Labor unions. (OCoLC)fst00990260
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Great Britain. (OCoLC)fst01204623
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Ireland. (OCoLC)fst01205427
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Gewerkschaft (DE-588)4020872-2
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Großbritannien (DE-588)4022153-2
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Ireland (DE-588)4027667-3
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
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| Chronological Term |
1800-1899
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Parfitt, Steven, Knights across the Atlantic 1781383189 (DLC) 2017288253 (OCoLC)946461846 |
| ISBN |
9781781384145 (electronic bk.) |
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1781384142 (electronic bk.) |
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9781781383537 (electronic bk.) |
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1781383537 (electronic bk.) |
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1781383189 |
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9781781383186 |
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