Greenbackers, Knights of Labor, and Populists
Title | Greenbackers, Knights of Labor, and Populists PDF eBook |
Author | Matthew Hild |
Publisher | |
Pages | 352 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
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Hild shows that the Populist (or People's) Party, the most important third party of the 1890s, established itself most solidly in Texas, Alabama, and, under the guise of the earlier Union Labor Party, Arkansas, where farmer-labor political coalitions from the 1870s to mid-1880s had laid the groundwork for populism's expansion.
Greenbackers, Knights of Labor, and Populists
Title | Greenbackers, Knights of Labor, and Populists PDF eBook |
Author | Matthew Hild |
Publisher | University of Georgia Press |
Pages | 345 |
Release | 2010-02-25 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0820336564 |
Historians have widely studied the late-nineteenth-century southern agrarian revolts led by such groups as the Farmers' Alliance and the People's (or Populist) Party. Much work has also been done on southern labor insurgencies of the same period, as kindled by the Knights of Labor and others. However, says Matthew Hild, historians have given only minimal consideration to the convergence of these movements. Hild shows that the Populist (or People's) Party, the most important third party of the 1890s, established itself most solidly in Texas, Alabama, and, under the guise of the earlier Union Labor Party, Arkansas, where farmer-labor political coalitions from the 1870s to mid-1880s had laid the groundwork for populism's expansion. Third-party movements fared progressively worse in Georgia and North Carolina, where little such coalition building had occurred, and in places like Tennessee and South Carolina, where almost no history of farmer-labor solidarity existed. Hild warns against drawing any direct correlations between a strong Populist presence in a given place and a background of farmer-laborer insurgency. Yet such a background could only help Populists and was a necessary precondition for the initially farmer-oriented Populist Party to attract significant labor support. Other studies have found a lack of labor support to be a major reason for the failure of Populism, but Hild demonstrates that the Populists failed despite significant labor support in many parts of the South. Even strong farmer-labor coalitions could not carry the Populists to power in a region in which racism and violent and fraudulent elections were, tragically, central features of politics.
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Pages | 221 |
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ISBN | 0826221661 |
Grand Army of Labor
Title | Grand Army of Labor PDF eBook |
Author | Matthew E. Stanley |
Publisher | University of Illinois Press |
Pages | 448 |
Release | 2021-04-13 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0252052641 |
Enlisting memory in a new fight for freedom From the Gilded Age through the Progressive era, labor movements reinterpreted Abraham Lincoln as a liberator of working people while workers equated activism with their own service fighting for freedom during the war. Matthew E. Stanley explores the wide-ranging meanings and diverse imagery used by Civil War veterans within the sprawling radical politics of the time. As he shows, a rich world of rituals, songs, speeches, and newspapers emerged among the many strains of working class cultural politics within the labor movement. Yet tensions arose even among allies. Some people rooted Civil War commemoration in nationalism and reform, and in time, these conservative currents marginalized radical workers who tied their remembering to revolution, internationalism, and socialism. An original consideration of meaning and memory, Grand Army of Labor reveals the complex ways workers drew on themes of emancipation and equality in the long battle for workers’ rights.
Gwinnett County, Georgia, and the Transformation of the American South, 1818–2018
Title | Gwinnett County, Georgia, and the Transformation of the American South, 1818–2018 PDF eBook |
Author | Matthew Hild |
Publisher | University of Georgia Press |
Pages | 269 |
Release | 2022-07-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0820362085 |
In Gwinnett County’s two hundred years, the area has been western, southern, rural, suburban, and now increasingly urban. Its stories include the displacement of Native peoples, white settlement, legal battles over Indian Removal, slavery and cotton, the Civil War and the Lost Cause, New South railroad and town development, Reconstruction and Jim Crow, business development and finance in a national economy, a Populist uprising and Black outmigration, the entrance of women into the political arena, the evolution of cotton culture, the development of modern infrastructure, and the transformation from rural to suburban to a multicultural urbanizing place. Gwinnett, as its chamber of commerce likes to say, has it all. However, Gwinnett has yet to be the focus of a major historical exploration—until now. Through a compilation of essays written by professional historians with expertise in a diverse array of eras and fields, Michael Gagnon and Matthew Hild’s collection finally tells these stories in a systematic way—avoiding the pitfalls of nonprofessional local histories that tend to ignore issues of race, class, or gender. While not claiming to be comprehensive, this book provides general readers and scholars alike with a glimpse at Gwinnett through the ages.
Goldbugs and Greenbacks
Title | Goldbugs and Greenbacks PDF eBook |
Author | Gretchen Ritter |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 322 |
Release | 1999-06-13 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780521653923 |
This is a book about the late-nineteenth-century money debates in American politics, and about the role of history in American political development.
Knights Unhorsed
Title | Knights Unhorsed PDF eBook |
Author | Robert E. Weir |
Publisher | Wayne State University Press |
Pages | 250 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780814328736 |
Knights Unhorsed examines the internal conflict and external pressures that drove one of America's most promising labor organizations into obscurity less than a half a century later." "This book will interest scholars and students of labor history, nineteenth century studies and American studies."--BOOK JACKET.