Title: The quest for "just and pure law" : Rocky Mountain workers and American social democracy, 1870-1924 /
Authors: Enyeart, John P. 1970-
Publisher: Stanford University Press,
Year: 2009
Subjects: Working class Rocky Mountains Region Political activity History; Working class Rocky Mountains Region Political activity History; Labor movement Rocky Mountains Region History; Labor movement Rocky Mountains Region History; Socialism Rocky Mountains Region History; Socialism Rocky Mountains Region History; Working class Political activity Rocky Mountains Region History; Working class Political activity Rocky Mountains Region History; Socialism Rocky Mountains Region
Contents: "He who would be free, himself must strike the blow" : Joseph Buchanan, Rocky Mountain Knights, and notions of working-class justice -- To "strike at the polls" : local and state politics, regional unity, and working-class political action -- The "militant, progressive, liberal spirit of western unionism" : mutualism, socialism, and regional activism -- "Sabotage, 'jackass tactics' indeed!" : progressive unionists, syndicalists, and the advance of social democracy -- "There is a war every day for the workers--there always has been" : the persistence of progressive unionism.