The quest for "just and pure law"
Subtitle: Rocky Mountain workers and American social democracy, 1870-1924
By: John P. Enyeart.
Series: Social science history
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9780804749862
Subjects: Working class -- Rocky Mountains Region -- Political activity -- History -- 19th century; Working class -- Rocky Mountains Region -- Political activity -- History -- 20th century; Labor movement -- Rocky Mountains Region -- History -- 19th century; Labor movement -- Rocky Mountains Region -- History -- 20th century; Socialism -- Rocky Mountains Region -- History -- 19th century; Socialism -- Rocky Mountains Region -- History -- 20th century
Other titles: Rocky Mountain workers and American social democracy, 1870-1924
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "He who would be free, himself must strike the blow" : Joseph Buchanan, Rocky Mountain Knights, and notions of working-class justice; title: To "strike at the polls" : local and state politics, regional unity, and working-class political action; title: The "militant, progressive, liberal spirit of western unionism" : mutualism, socialism, and regional activism; title: "Sabotage, 'jackass tactics' indeed!" : progressive unionists, syndicalists, and the advance of social democracy; title: "There is a war every day for the workers; title: there always has been" : the persistence of progressive unionism.