Workingmen's Democracy

Preface   xi
1 Working-Class Radicalism in the Gilded Age: Defining a Political Culture   3
2 The Uses of Political Power: The Knights of Labor and the State   18
3 When Cleon Comes to Rule: Popular Organization and Political Development. Part 1: Rochester, New Hampshire   38
4 When Cleon Comes to Rule: Popular Organization and Political Development. Part 2: Rutland, Vermont   66
5 City-Building and Social Reform: Urban Workers within the Two-Party System, Kansas City, Kansas   112
6 Together but Unequal: Southern Knights and the Dilemmas of Race and Politics, Richmond, Virginia   149
7 Bullets and Ballots: Worker Mobilization and the Path to Municipal Socialism, Milwaukee, Wisconsin   178
8 Labor, Party Politics, and American Exceptionalism   219
Selected Bibliography: Primary Sources   234
Index   239