Tag: knights of labor

This Day in Labor History: February 26, 1885

By Erik Loomis

In General

On February 26, 2022

On February 26, 1885, the Alien Contract Labor Act, better known as the Foran Act, restricting contract laborers from entering the U.S., passed Congress, putting additional pressure to stop Chinese and eastern European immigration as a result of white labor angry over foreign competition. If there was two things that white workers hated in the […]

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This Day in Labor History: May 5, 1886

By Erik Loomis

On May 5, 2019

On May 5, 1886, the Wisconsin National Guard opened fire on strikers in Milwaukee fighting for the 8-hour day, killing 7 workers. Coming a day after Haymarket and two days after the massacre of strike

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Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 253

By Erik Loomis

On June 16, 2018

This is the grave of Terence Powderly. Born in 1849 in Carbondale, Pennsylvania, the 11th child of Irish parents, Powderly lived the childhood of the Irish-American poor. He got sick as a kid, contrac

This Day in Labor History: August 13, 1887

By Erik Loomis

In General

On August 13, 2016

On August 13, 1887, leathermakers in Newark, New Jersey, locked out their employees as a strategy to crush the Knights of Labor. This lockout would demonstrate the lengths to which American employers would go in order to ensure their shops remained union-free, a significant departure from the accommodations made by European employers, a difference that […]

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Book Review: Alex Gourevitch: From Slavery to the Cooperative Commonwealth: Labor and Republican Liberty in the Nineteenth Century

By Erik Loomis

On June 29, 2015

I don’t read much, or really any, political theory at this point in my life. It’s an important field but I have little background in it and the start-up cost of time and energy to read dif

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Rewriting the Gilded Age in the New Gilded Age

By Erik Loomis

On April 3, 2015

Steve Fraser excerpts some of his new book on what we can learn today from resistance in the Gilded Age in The Nation. A bit from his selection on the Knights of Labor: Like the Populist movement, it

This Day in Labor History: March 6, 1886

By Erik Loomis

In General

On March 6, 2015

On March 6, 1886, the Great Southwest Strike began, marking the start of a year of worker revolt against the exploitation of Gilded Age capitalism. Over 200,000 railroad workers went on strike, but the failure to win helped usher in the decline of the Knights of Labor. The widely and publicly loathed Jay Gould was […]

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