Grand Army of Labor

Matthew E. Stanley is an associate professor of history at Albany State University. He is the author of The Loyal West: Civil War and Reunion in Middle America.

"This book is a must for those who would strive to replace marble men with stories of people who lived and died fighting against monopoly, white supremacy, inequality, militarism, convict labor, and a growing internal empire." --Journal of American History"As Matthew Stanley shows, the foot-soldiers in Grand Army of Labor lost many of their initial electoral battles. Yet pioneering efforts ultimately succeeded in popularizing the idea that veterans' benefits were a good working model for more expansive social welfare programs, benefiting all U.S. workers and their families." --Against the Current"Stanley's outstanding study reminds us of the power of symbols--including popular images of antislavery leaders, such as Abraham Lincoln, and abolitionist martyrs, such as John Brown--as well as incomplete and skewed historical representations, such as the Lost Cause." --Journal of the Civil War Era

• CoverTitle PageCopyrightContentsForewordAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: A Second Great EmancipatorChapter 1. King Labor: Workers Imagine Emancipation beyond EqualityChapter 2. Southern Palm, Northern Pine: Greenbackers and the Reconciliation of ClassChapter 3. Against Masters and Money Power: The Knights of Labor and Wage SlaveryChapter 4. The Red Flag of Emancipation: Socialism and Revolutionary MemoryChapter 5. The Blue-Gray Campaign: Populism and White ReunionChapter 6. Citadel of Labor: The American Federation of Labor and Reformist MemoryChapter 7. The Blue and the Gray and the Red: The Rise and Repression of Proletarian MemoryEpilogue: Resurrecting John Brown's BodyNotesBibliographyIndexBack cover