Leonora Barry: Report for the Knights of Labor
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Leonora Barry:Report for the Knights of Labor
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Abstract
The Knights of Labor was the United States’ first sizeable organization of workers united for the purpose of advocacy; in the 1880s the group had between 700,000 and 800,000 members, about a tenth of the nation’s industrial workforce. The Knights called for an eight-hour working day, the abolition of child labor, and better pay. The most unusual aspect of the Knights was the nature of its membership. Any worker could join, male or female, of any skill level, and even of any race, although the Knights supported bans on immigration. After the Haymarket Affair in 1886, in which seven policemen were killed in a bombing at a Chicago labor demonstration, membership declined precipitously—but the decline also opened up opportunities for diversity in the organization’s leadership.
Contents
- Chapter 1: “Let us have liberty, law, and justice”: Reconstruction, Post–Reconstruction, and the Jim Crow South
- Reconstruction Amendments
- Joseph R. Johnson: Letter from a Northern Teacher to the Freedmen’s Bureau Commissioner
- Jourdon Anderson: Letter “To My Old Master”
- Sharecropper Contract
- Black Code of Mississippi
- Thaddeus Stevens: “Reconstruction” Speech
- “Information Wanted” Advertisements
- Thomas Nast: “Worse than Slavery”
- “The First South Carolina Legislature during Radical Reconstruction”
- Frederick Douglass: “On Remembering the Civil War” Speech
- Henry Grady: “New South” Speech
- Ida B. Wells: Southern Horrors
- Booker T. Washington: Atlanta Exposition Address
- Plessy v. Ferguson
- Jim Crow Laws
- W. E. B. Du Bois: The Souls of Black Folk
- Chapter 2: “Here in the shop the machines roar so wildly”: Industrialization, Immigration, and Labor in the City
- National Quarantine Act
- James Albert Wales: “Where Both Platforms Agree”
- Thomas Edison: Patent No. 223,898 for the Light Bulb
- Chinese Exclusion Act
- Bernhard Gillam: “The Protectors of Our Industries”
- Haymarket Affair Announcement
- Lucy Parsons: “I Am an Anarchist” Speech
- T. Thomas Fortune: “The Present Relations of Labor and Capital”
- Interstate Commerce Act
- Leonora Barry: Report for the Knights of Labor
- Nellie Bly: Ten Days in a Mad-House
- Andrew Carnegie: “Wealth”
- Jacob Riis: How the Other Half Lives
- Sherman Antitrust Act
- Bettie Gay: “The Influence of Women in the Alliance”
- Jane Addams: “The Subjective Necessity for Social Settlements”
- Frances Willard: Address before the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
- Samuel Gompers: Editorial on the Pullman Strike
- “The Sandow Trocadero Vaudevilles”
- Eugene V. Debs: “Liberty” Speech
- “What God Freely Gives to Man, Monopoly Appropriates”
- “The ‘Dayton’ 1896”
- William Jennings Bryan: “Cross of Gold” Speech
- Morris Rosenfeld: “In the Factory”
- Thorstein Veblen: “Conspicuous Consumption”
- Horace Taylor: “What a Funny Little Government”
- Theodore Dreiser: Sister Carrie
- “What the Bottle Does: One Year’s Work”
- Eugene V. Debs: “How I Became a Socialist”
- John Mitchell: Organized Labor
- Emma Goldman: “A New Declaration of Independence”
- Anzia Yezierska: Bread Givers
- Chapter 3: “To sign away my country”: Westward Expansion and Imperialism
- Homestead Act
- John Gast: American Progress
- Chief Joseph: “An Indian’s View of Indian Affairs”
- John Nicholas Choate: “Before and After”
- Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins: Life among the Piutes
- “Wounded Knee Massacre”
- Richard H. Pratt: “Kill the Indian, and Save the Man” Speech
- Clara Barton: The Red Cross in Peace and War
- Victor Gillam: “Remember the Maine! And Don’t Forget the Starving Cubans!”
- Louis Dalrymple: “School Begins”
- Platform of the Anti-Imperialist League
- Emil Flohri: “And, After All, the Philippines Are Only the Stepping-Stone to China”
- Charles Eastman: From the Deep Woods of Civilization
- Zitkala-Ša: “The Cutting of My Long Hair”
- Chapter 4: “The strong arm of the government”: The Progressive Era
- Theodore Roosevelt: Statements Pertaining to Conservation
- Florence Kelley: “The Child Breadwinner and the Dependent Parent”
- Upton Sinclair: The Jungle
- Jack London: “The Story of an Eyewitness”
- Pure Food and Drug Act
- Theodore Roosevelt: Special Message to Congress on Worker’s Compensation
- Lewis Wickes Hine: “One of the Spinners in Whitnel Cotton Mfg. Co., North Carolina”
- Lewis Wickes Hine: “Sadie Pfeifer, a Cotton Mill Spinner, Lancaster, South Carolina”
- Clara Lemlich: “Life in the Shop”
- Ida B. Wells: “Lynching: Our National Crime”
- Jane Addams: “Why Women Should Vote”
- Shirtwaist Advertisement
- “Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire”
- Progressive Party Platform
- Jane Addams: “Who Is to Blame for Child Labor?”
- World War I Propaganda Poster for Victory Gardens
- Margaret Sanger: “Birth Control and Racial Betterment”
- W. E. B. Du Bois: “Jesus Christ in Texas”