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Knights Across the Atlantic - The Knights of Labor in Britain and Ireland (Hardcover)
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Knights Across the Atlantic - The Knights of Labor in Britain and Ireland (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Labour History, 7
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An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool
University Press website and the OAPEN library. The 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.
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