Journal article
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