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Focusing on the operation and influence of the Knights of Labor --- the leading labor organization of the nineteenth century --- Workingmen's Democracy explores the dreams, achievements, and failures of a movement that sought to renew the democratic potential of American institutions.
"The pick of a growing crop of studies on the American working class." -- The Nation
"An important work, the best of several recent volumes on the Knights." -- American Historical Review
"The pick of a growing crop of studies on the American working class." -- The Nation
"An important work, the best of several recent volumes on the Knights." -- American Historical Review
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