Class and the Color Line: Interracial Class Coalition in the Knights of Labor and the Populist Movement

by Joseph Gerteis

Book Overview

A lauded contribution to historical sociology, Class and the Color Line is an analysis of social-movement organizing across racial lines in the American South during the 1880s and the 1890s. The Knights of Labor and the Populists were the largest and most influential movements of their day, as well as the first to undertake large-scale organizing in the former Confederate states, where they attempted to recruit African Americans as fellow workers...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822342243
• ISBN13: 9780822342243
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.3"