Knights of Labor

Why is the United States the only advanced capitalist country with no labor party? This question is one of the great enduring puzzles of American political development, and it lies at the heart of a fundamental debate about the nature of American society. Tackling this debate head-on, Robin Archer puts forward a new explanation for why there is no American labor party–an explanation that suggests that much of the…

A book detailing the working conditions and the young labour movement of the USA in the 19th Century, based primarily on the daughter of Karl…

Louis Adamic's short history of the Knights of Labor union and some of its key disputes from its founding in 1869 until its successful railway…

The autobiography of Mary Harris Jones, more commonly known as Mother Jones. The "most dangerous woman in America" and a committed organizer for…

Letters from the South Grand Master Workman of the Knights of Labor, revealing that the color line still remained a serious problem, and that the Knights did not succeed in breaking down the wall separating white and black. They also throw light on some of the special problems facing the KoL when it moved into the South.

Jeremy Brecher's account of the growth of the Knights of Labor union in the US, the agitation for a…

The full autobiographies of each of the Haymarket martyrs: eight Chicago anarchists who were sentenced to death and in whose memory we celebrate…

A biography of anarchist, labor activist, newspaper editor, and Haymarket martyr - Albert Parsons…

Selections from Chapter 2 of "Dynamite: the Story of Class Violence in America" on the condition of the American working class in the late 19th…

One of the most interesting, and probably least known events in Louisiana history is the Thibodaux Massacre of 1887, the second most bloody labor…