Cross-class alliances and the birth of modern liberalism
Subtitle: Maryland's workers, 1865-1916
By: George B. Du Bois, Jr.
Publisher: Chesapeake Book Company
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Baltimore, MD
Language: eng
Number of pages: 345
ISBN-13: 9780963515988
Subjects: Labor movement -- Maryland -- History -- 19th century; Labor movement -- Maryland -- History -- 20th century; Liberalism -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Liberalism -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1865-early 1880s : experiments in independent electoral politics; title: Early 1880s to mid-1890s : the transition years; title: The mid-1890s to 1916 : workers as progressives; title: Labor republicanism and the workingmen and Reform Party, 1865-1869; title: Sorting out the possible : strikes, lobbying, and independent political parties; title: 1870-82; title: A political ally : Robert M. McLane and labor reform, 1883-1885; title: The drive for shorter hours and a final effort in independent politics: 1886; title: Producer cooperation, worker education, and political reform, 1886-1893; title: Labor, its allies, and the sweatshop evil, 1892-1902; title: Labor and the progressives, 1902-1916.