All-American anarchist
Subtitle: Joseph A. Labadie and the labor movement
By: Carlotta R. Anderson.
Series: Great Lakes books
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Detroit, Mich
Language: eng
Number of pages: 324
Subjects: Labadie, Jo, 1850-1933.; Anarchists -- United States -- Biography.; Labor movement -- Michigan -- History.
Description: All-American Anarchist chronicles the life and work of Joseph A. Labadie (1850-1933), Detroit's prominent labor organizer and one of early labor's most influential activists. A dynamic participant in the major social reform movements of the Gilded Age, Labadie was a central figure in the pervasive struggle for a new social order as the American Midwest underwent rapid industrialization at the end of the nineteenth century.

This engaging biography follows Labadie's colorful career from a childhood among a Pottawatomi tribe in the Michigan woods through his local and national involvement in a maze of late nineteenth-century labor and reform activities, including participation in the Socialist Labor party, Knights of Labor, Greenback movement, trades councils, typographical union, eight-hour-day campaigns, and the rise of the American Federation of Labor.

In writing this biography of her grandfather, Carlotta R. Anderson consulted the renowned Labadie Collection at the University of Michigan, a unique collection of protest literature which extensively documents pivotal times in American labor history and radical history.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-309) and index.