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Makers of America: Class discussion and exercises
Makers Of America: The Knights Of Labor
Chapter 24:
Industry Comes of Age, 1865 - 1900
Questions for Class Discussion
- What was admirable and progressive
in the Knights outlook? What was largely nostalgic and doomed to failure?
- What was the appeal of the Knights
emphasis on secrecy, ritual, and brotherhood? What elements
of the Knights emphasis on social solidarity remained part of the labor
movement, and what disappeared?
Suggested Student Exercises
- Examine the Knights role in the
great industrial strikes of 1886. Explain why they experienced a boom in membership,
especially with the advocacy of the eight-hour day, and then suddenly collapsed
and soon disappeared.
- Examine the biographies of the Knights
two most prominent leaders, Terence Powderly and Mother Jones.
Perhaps compare their utopian- and producer-oriented
outlook with that of more pragmatic unionists like Samuel Gompers and socialists
like Eugene V. Debs.
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