Arkansas's Gilded Age: The Rise, Decline, and Legacy of Populism and Working-Class Protest

by Matthew Hild

This book is the first devoted entirely to an examination of working-class activism, broadly defined as that of farmers' organizations, labor unions, and (often biracial) political movements, in Arkansas during the Gilded Age. On one level, Hild argues for the significance of this activism in its own time: had the Arkansas Democratic Party not resorted to undemocratic, unscrupulous, and violent means of repression, the Arkansas Union Labor Party would...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826221661
• ISBN13: 9780826221667
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: University of Missouri Press
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.1"