Tag: Knights of Labor

Events

Study day: Protest movements, political dissent and social struggles in Britain, 1811-1914

The OAB (Centre de Recherches Anglophones, Paris Nanterre) and CREW (Sorbonne Nouvelle) are jointly organizing a study day titled Protest movements, political protests and social struggles in Great Britain (1811-1914) on 31 January 2025. The day will be held on the Paris Nanterre University site, Max Weber Building. Continue reading Study day: Protest movements, political dissent and social struggles in Britain, 1811-1914

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Events, Grants

The fragmentation of labour over imperial and racial issues, 1870s-1920s

Steven Parfitt reports from a conference at which he and other labour historians addressed issues of race and empire facing the seafarers’ union and outposts of the US Knights of Labor in Britain and elsewhere. Report on the Conference ‘Fragmented Powers: Confrontation and Cooperation in the English-speaking World’ From 23 to 25 June 2022, Yann Béliard, Joe Redmayne and I took part in the ‘Fragmented Powers’ conference, organised … Continue reading The fragmentation of labour over imperial and racial issues, 1870s-1920s

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Labour History Review

Transnational Borrowings: Scottish Sons of Labour and American Knights of Labor, 1887–1890

Author: Steven ParfittThis is the abstract of an article published in Labour History Review (2020), 85, (2), 127–156. Find out more. Between 1883 and 1900 an American working-class movement, the Knights of Labor, spread around the world. Their assemblies appeared in Europe, Australasia, and Southern Europe, as well as North America. Yet they also inspired a range of emulating movements in different parts of the world. … Continue reading Transnational Borrowings: Scottish Sons of Labour and American Knights of Labor, 1887–1890

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