Grand Master Workman: Terence Powderly and the Knights of Labor

by Craig Phelan

The Noble Order of the Knights of Labor was the most ambitious and significant labor organization of the Gilded Age. As the charismatic leader of this group, Terence Powderly was America's first nationally known labor leader, the first to achieve a high degree of recognition from working people, industrialists, and politicians across the continent. To most Americans, Powderly was the Knights of Labor. Based on an exhaustive examination of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313309485
• ISBN13: 9780313309489
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.5"