num_pages: 552
description: "For anyone who believes that there was no important labor movement before Roosevelt, or before Gompers, or before the Knights of Labor, this well-documented work should prove a shocker. And for those who look to the past for enlightenment to guide us through our troubled tomorrows, this book is a reservoir of historic information and insights." -- New Leader"Beyond Equality is a masterpiece. . . . A book of bold and brilliant originality, it is now shaping the perspective of a new generation of graduate students." -- David Brion Davis , author of The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture 
language: English
title: Beyond Equality: Labor and the Radical Republicans, 1862-1872
publisher: University of Illinois Press