Knights Across the Atlantic: The Knights of Labor in Britain and Ireland

by Steven Parfitt

The Noble and Holy Order of the Knights of Labor, the first national movement of the American working class, began in Philadelphia in 1869. Millions of Americans, white and black, men and women, became Knights between that date and 1917. But the Knights also spread beyond the borders of the United States and even beyond North America. Knights Across the Atlantic\ tells for the first time the full story of the Knights of Labor in Britain and Ireland,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1781383189
• ISBN13: 9781781383186
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.3"