Tramps, trade union travellers, and wandering workers: how geographic mobility undermined organized labour in Gilded Age America

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Tramps, trade union travellers, and wandering workers: how geographic mobility undermined organized labour in Gilded Age America

This thesis will argue that high levels of internal migration in Gilded Age America undermined the stability and growth of trade unions and labour-based parties. Most of the traditional ‘American Exceptionalist’ arguments which asserted a lack of class consciousness will be challenged. Significant...

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Main Author:	Moody, Kimberly S.
Format:	Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:	English
Published:	2016
Subjects:	Labour Knights of Labour Internal Migration geographic mobility Gilded Age
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/31007/

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