The quest for "just and pure law": Rocky Mountain workers and American social democracy, 1870 - 1924

In: Social science history

Abstract

"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