Episode 12: Labor Was Noble and Holy

Episode 12: Labor Was Noble and Holy

The Knights of Labor ends, not with a bang, but with a whimper. However, even as the order itself dies out, the individuals, organizations, and ideas that it inspired go on to make up a new vanguard in the labor and progressive movements in the twentieth century. ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

Episode 11: The Fall of the House of Powderly

After years of turmoil and decline, the Knights of Labor make an agrarian pivot, becoming part of the coalition which founds the People’s Party in the 1890s. However, this new strategy begins to lay the groundwork for the ultimate end of the Knights of Labor, and the expulsion of its longest-serving leader. ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

Episode 10: Knights Unhorsed

All of a sudden, everything is going wrong for the Knights of Labor. Between lockouts from employers, racial violence, and rapidly intensifying internal divisions, the order faces attacks from all sides and struggles to find its footing. ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

Episode 9: A Study In Democracy

As the year of the Great Upheaval comes to a close, the Knights face their biggest tests yet: their largest ever General Assembly and a rash of elections in the 1886 midterms. Meanwhile, their enemies in the labor movement and in the business community plot to destroy them. ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

Episode 8: The Long, Hot Summer

With the failure of the largest strikes of the Great Upheaval, the Knights continue to grow but find themselves facing a series of internal divisions and external attacks that require them to revisit old tactics and develop new ones. ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.