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Grand Master Workman: Terence Powderly and the Knights of Labor. By Craig Phelan. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2000. Pp. 294. $65.00. -

Abstract

This volume is a throwback to an older style of labor history, one based on the leaders of the labor movement. Craig Phelan has produced an intriguing, and in places even inspiring, history of Terence Powderly, the leader of the Knights of Labor from 1879 to 1893. Powderly's story deserves to be retold. His history stands at the cross-roads of an older American set of ideals dating back to the founding of the nation and the emerging corporate …

Authors

Lewchuk W

Journal

The Journal of Economic History, Vol. 61, No. 1, pp. 222–223

Publisher

Cambridge University Press (CUP)

Publication Date

March 2001

DOI

10.1017/s0022050701413179

ISSN

0022-0507