Editing Knights of Labor (section)

==Further reading==
===Scholarly studies===
* Arvidsson, Stefan (2018). The style and mythology of socialism: socialist idealism, 1871-1914. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge
* {{cite journal
  | last = Birdsall
  | first = William C.
  | title = The Problem of Structure in the Knights of Labor
  | journal = Industrial and Labor Relations Review
  | volume = 6
  | issue = 4
  | pages = 532–546
  | date = July 1953
  | doi = 10.2307/2518795
  | jstor = 2518795}}
* Blum, Edward J. " 'By the Sweat of Your Brow': The Knights of Labor, the Book of Genesis, and the Christian Spirit of the Gilded Age." ''Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas'' 11.2 (2014): 29–34.
* Browne, Henry J. ''The Catholic Church and the Knights of Labor.'' Washington: Catholic University of America Press, 1949.
* Case, Theresa A. ''The Great Southwest Railroad Strike and Free Labor'' (Texas A&M University Press, 2010); [https://muse.jhu.edu/article/433283/summary online review], on 1886
* {{cite journal
  | last = Cassity
  | first = Michael J.
  | title = Modernization and Social Crisis: The Knights of Labor and a Midwest Community, 1885-1886
  | journal = Journal of American History
  | volume = 66
  | issue = 1
  | pages = 41–61
  | date = June 1979
  | doi = 10.2307/1894673
  | jstor = 1894673}}
* Commons, John R. et al., ''History of Labour in the United States: Volume 2, 1860-1896.'' (4 vol 1918). vol 2
* Conell, Carol, and Kim Voss. "Formal Organization and the Fate of Social Movements: Craft Association and Class Alliance in the Knights of Labor," ''American Sociological Review'' Vol. 55, No. 2 (Apr., 1990), pp.&nbsp;255–269 [https://www.jstor.org/stable/2095631 in JSTOR] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200426143546/https://www.jstor.org/stable/2095631 |date=26 April 2020 }}, focus on steel industry
* de Leon, Cedric. "Black from white: How the rights of white and black workers became 'labor' and 'civil' rights after the US civil war." ''Labor Studies Journal'' 42.1 (2017): 10–26. [https://www.academia.edu/download/51550071/BlackFromWhite_deLeon_LSJ_MS_accepted_version.pdf online]{{Dead link|date=October 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
* Fink, Leon. "The New Labor History and the Powers of Historical Pessimism: Consensus, Hegemony, and the Case of the Knights of Labor," ''Journal of American History'' Vol. 75, No. 1 (Jun., 1988), pp.&nbsp;115–136 [https://www.jstor.org/stable/1889657 in JSTOR] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200804044828/https://www.jstor.org/stable/1889657 |date=4 August 2020 }}, historiography
* Fink, Leon. ''Workingmen's Democracy: The Knights of Labor and American Politics.'' Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1983. [https://archive.org/details/workingmensdemoc00fink online]
* Grob, Gerald N. "The Knights of Labor and the Trade Unions, 1878-1886," ''Journal of Economic History'' Vol. 18, No. 2 (Jun., 1958), pp.&nbsp;176–192 [https://www.jstor.org/stable/2115102 in JSTOR] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200426024358/https://www.jstor.org/stable/2115102 |date=26 April 2020 }}
* Hild, Matthew. ''Greenbackers, Knights of Labor, and Populists: Farmer-Labor Insurgency in the Late-Nineteenth-Century South'' (U of Georgia Press, 2010).
* Hild, Matthew. "Building the Alabama Labor Movement: Nicholas Byrne Stack and the Knights of Labor." ''Alabama Review'' 73.2 (2020): 91–117. 
* Hild, Matthew. "The Knights of Labor and the Third-Party Movement in Texas, 1886–1896." ''Southwestern Historical Quarterly'' 119.1 (2015): 24–43. [https://muse.jhu.edu/article/588662/summary online]
* Hoffman, Richard C. "Producer co-operatives of the Knights of Labor: seeking worker independence." ''Labor History'' (2022): 1–19.
* {{cite journal
  | last = Kessler
  | first = Sidney H.
  | title = The Organization of Negroes in the Knights of Labor
  | journal = Journal of Negro History
  | volume = 37
  | pages = 248–276
  | date = July 1937
  | doi = 10.2307/2715493
  | jstor = 2715493
  | issue = 3| s2cid = 149648934
 }}
* Kaufman, Jason. "Rise and Fall of a Nation of Joiners: The Knights of Labor Revisited," ''Journal of Interdisciplinary History'' Vol. 31, No. 4 (Spring, 2001), pp.&nbsp;553–579 [https://www.jstor.org/stable/206859 in JSTOR] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200425134321/https://www.jstor.org/stable/206859 |date=25 April 2020 }} statistical study of competition with other unions and with fraternal societies for members
* {{cite journal
  | last = Kemmerer
  | first = Donald L.
  |author2=Edward D. Wickersham
   | title = Reasons for the Growth of the Knights of Labor in 1885-1886
  | journal = Industrial and Labor Relations Review
  | volume = 3
  | issue = 2
  | pages = 213–220
  | date = January 1950
  | jstor =2518830
  | doi = 10.2307/2518830}}
* Keohane, Jennifer. " 'Labor is Noble and Holy': Ironic Inclusion and Exclusion in the Knights of Labor, 1885-1890." ''Rhetoric Review'' 38.3 (2019): 311–324. [https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/07350198.2019.1618114 online] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230515125142/https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/07350198.2019.1618114 |date=15 May 2023 }}
* Levine, Susan. "Labor's True Woman: Domesticity and Equal Rights in the Knights of Labor," ''Journal of American History'' Vol. 70, No. 2 (Sep., 1983), pp.&nbsp;323–339 [https://www.jstor.org/stable/1900207 in JSTOR] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210604162045/https://www.jstor.org/stable/1900207 |date=4 June 2021 }}
* Levine, Susan. ''True Women: Carpet Weavers, Industrialization, and Labor Reform in the Gilded Age.'' Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1984.
* {{cite journal
  | last1 = Licht
  | first1 = Walter
  | title = The Knights of Labor Commemorated and Reconsidered: : Dreaming of What Might Be: The Knights of Labor in Ontario, 1880-1900; Workingmen's Democracy: The Knights of Labor and American Politics
  | journal = Journal of Interdisciplinary History
  | volume = 16
  | issue = 1
  | pages = 117–123
  | date = Summer 1985
  | doi = 10.2307/204327
  | jstor = 204327
  | last2 = Kealey
  | first2 = Gregory
  | last3 = Palmer
  | first3 = Bryan
  | last4 = Fink
  | first4 = Leon }}
* {{cite journal
  | last = Miner
  | first = Claudia
  | title = The 1886 Convention of the Knights of Labor
  | journal = Pylon
  | volume = 44
  | issue = 2
  | pages = 147–159
  | date = 1983
  | doi = 10.2307/275026
  | jstor = 275026}}
* McLaurin, Melton Alonza. ''The Knights of Labor in the South.'' Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1978.
* Phelan, Craig. ''Grand Master Workman: Terence Powderly and the Knights of Labor'' (Greenwood, 2000), scholarly biography [https://www.questia.com/library/120072755/grand-master-workman-terence-powderly-and-the-knights online edition] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190627115035/https://www.questia.com/library/120072755/grand-master-workman-terence-powderly-and-the-knights |date=27 June 2019 }}
* [[Frank W. Taussig|Taussig, Frank W.]] "The South-Western Strike of 1886." The ''Quarterly Journal of Economics'' 1.2 (1887): 184–222; detailed coverage by a leading scholar; [https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/1880770.pdf online] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230515125143/https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/1880770.pdf |date=15 May 2023 }}
* Voss, Kim. ''The Making of American Exceptionalism: The Knights of Labor and Class Formation in the Nineteenth Century.'' Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1994. Sociological study. [https://www.questia.com/library/103669123/the-making-of-american-exceptionalism-the-knights online] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190627115042/https://www.questia.com/library/103669123/the-making-of-american-exceptionalism-the-knights |date=27 June 2019 }}
*  Ware, Norman J. ''The Labor Movement in the United States, 1860 - 1895: A Study In Democracy.'' (1929).
* Weir, Robert E. ''Beyond Labor's Veil: The Culture of the Knights of Labor.'' (Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996) [https://www.questia.com/library/2350134/beyond-labor-s-veil-the-culture-of-the-knights-of online edition] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190627115033/https://www.questia.com/library/2350134/beyond-labor-s-veil-the-culture-of-the-knights-of |date=27 June 2019 }}
* Weir, Robert E. (1997). [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0254/is_n4_v56/ai_20381867/?tag=content;col1 A fragile alliance: Henry George and the Knights of Labor]{{dead link|date=May 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}. ''[[The American Journal of Economics and Sociology]], 56,'' 421–439.
* Weir, Robert E. ''Knights Unhorsed: Internal Conflict in Gilded Age Social Movement'' (Wayne State University Press, 2000)
*{{cite book|last=White|author-link=Richard White (historian)|first=Richard|title=Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America|publisher=W. W. Norton & Company|date=2011|isbn=978-0-393-06126-0|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/railroadedtransc00whit_0}}
* Wright, Carroll D. "An Historical Sketch of the Knights of Labor," ''Quarterly Journal of Economics,'' vol. 1, no. 2 (January 1887), pp.&nbsp;137–168. [https://www.jstor.org/pss/1880768 in JSTOR]

===Outside US===
* Arvidsson, Stefan ''The style and mythology of socialism: socialist idealism, 1871-1914.'' Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2017.
* Kealey, Gregory, and Brian Palmer, ''Dreaming of What Might Be: The Knights of Labor in Ontario, 1880-1900.'' New York: Cambridge University Press, 1982.
* Parfitt, Steven. ''Knights Across the Atlantic: The Knights of Labor in Britain and Ireland'' (2017) [https://academic.oup.com/liverpool-scholarship-online/book/43247 contents] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230516044620/https://academic.oup.com/liverpool-scholarship-online/book/43247 |date=16 May 2023 }} also see  [https://www.storre.stir.ac.uk/bitstream/1893/30137/1/Toth-2019-BookReview.pdf online review] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221208163407/https://www.storre.stir.ac.uk/bitstream/1893/30137/1/Toth-2019-BookReview.pdf |date=8 December 2022 }}
* Parfitt, Steven. "A nexus between labour movement and labour movement: the Knights of Labor and the financial side of global labour history." ''Labor History'' 58.3 (2017): 288–302.
* Parfitt, Steven. "Transnational Borrowings: Scottish Sons of Labour and American Knights of Labor, 1887–1890." ''Labour History Review'' 85.2 (2020): 127–157.
* Parfitt, Steven. "The First-and-a-half International: The Knights of Labor and the History of International Labour Organization in the Nineteenth Century." ''Labour History Review'' 80.2 (2015): 135–167.
* Parfitt, Steven. "Completing the Order’s History Down Under: The Knights of Labor in Australia." ''Labour History: A Journal of Labour and Social History'' 110 (2016): 1–18.
* Parfitt, Steven. "Constructing the Global History of the Knights of Labor." ''Labor'' 14.1 (2017): 13–37.
* {{cite journal
  | last = Pelling
  | first = Henry
  | title = The Knights of Labor in Britain, 1880-1901
  | journal = Economic History Review
  | volume = 9 (new series)
  | issue = 2
  | pages = 313–331
  | year = 1956
  | doi = 10.2307/2591749
  | jstor = 2591749}}, shows that American workers in the window glass industry set up an English chapter in 1884 to watch the business in Europe; it remained small
* Toth, Gyorgy. "Knights across the Atlantic: The Knights of Labor in Britain and Ireland." (2019): 151–156.
*  Watillon, Leon. and Frederic Meyers, ''The Knights of Labor in Belgium.'' Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1978. Also in partial translation by Frederic Meyers, Institute of Industrial Relations, Los Angeles, 1959: http://www.oac.cdlib.org/ark:/28722/bk0003t812j/?brand=oac4 {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303233810/http://www.oac.cdlib.org/ark:/28722/bk0003t812j/?brand=oac4 |date=3 March 2016 }}

===Primary sources===

====By Knights====
*  {{cite book
  | author = Knights of Labor
  | title = Proceedings of the General Assembly, 10th - 30th
  | format = microfilm
  | date = 1887–1913
  | publisher = Library of American civilization
  | url = http://catalog.wrlc.org/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?v1=20&ti=1,20&Search%5FArg=Knights%20of%20Labor&SL=None&Search%5FCode=SUBJ%5F&CNT=25&PID=896&SEQ=20061008221735&SID=3
  | id = LAC 23217-20
  | access-date = 9 October 2006
  | archive-date = 10 May 2017
  | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170510140208/http://catalog.wrlc.org/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?v1=20&ti=1,20&Search%5FArg=Knights%20of%20Labor&SL=None&Search%5FCode=SUBJ%5F&CNT=25&PID=896&SEQ=20061008221735&SID=3
  | url-status = live
  }}
*  {{cite book
  | author = Knights of Labor
  | title = Record of the proceedings of the General Assembly, 1st - 9th
  | format = microfilm
  | date = 1878–1886
  | publisher = Library of American civilization
  | url = http://catalog.wrlc.org/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?v1=21&ti=1,21&Search%5FArg=Knights%20of%20Labor&SL=None&Search%5FCode=SUBJ%5F&CNT=25&PID=896&SEQ=20061008221735&Sisbn=3
  | id = LAC 23214-16
  | access-date = 1 December 2008
  | archive-date = 10 May 2017
  | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170510140106/http://catalog.wrlc.org/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?v1=21&ti=1,21&Search%5FArg=Knights%20of%20Labor&SL=None&Search%5FCode=SUBJ%5F&CNT=25&PID=896&SEQ=20061008221735&Sisbn=3
  | url-status = live
  }}
*  {{cite book
  | last = Powderly
  | first = Terence Vincent
  | title = Thirty Years of Labor. 1859-1889
  | publisher = Excelsior publishing house
  | year = 1889
  | pages = 693
  | url = https://archive.org/details/thirtyyearslabo00powdgoog
  | quote = Terence Vincent Powderly.
    }}
*  {{cite book
  | last = Powderly
  | first = Terence Vincent
  | title = Thirty Years of Labor. 1859-1889
  | publisher = Excelsior publishing house
  | year = 1889
  | pages = 693
  | url = https://archive.org/details/thirtyyearslabo00powdgoog
  | quote = Terence Vincent Powderly.
    }}
* {{cite book
  | last = Powderly
  | first = Terence Vincent
  |author2=Edmund Janes James
   | title = The Labor Movement: The Problem of To-day
  | publisher = The M. W. Hazen Company
  | year = 1891
  | pages = [https://archive.org/details/labormovementpr00jamegoog/page/n706 628]
  | url = https://archive.org/details/labormovementpr00jamegoog
  | quote = Terence Vincent Powderly.
    }}
** {{cite book
  | last = Powderly
  | first = Terence Vincent
  | title = The Labor Movement: The Problem of To-day; Chapter XV: The History of the Knights of Labor
  | year = 1891
  | pages = [https://archive.org/details/labormovementpr00jamegoog/page/n457 397]–428
  | publisher = New York, M.W. Hazen Co.
 | url = https://archive.org/details/labormovementpr00jamegoog
  | quote = Terence Vincent Powderly.
    }}
* {{cite book
  | last = Powderly
  | first = Terence Vincent
  |author2=John Williams Hayes
   | editor = John A. Turcheneske Jr
  | title = Terence Vincent Powderly Papers 1864-1937 and John Williams Hayes Papers 1880-1921, The Knights of Labor
  | year = 1891
  | pages = 109 reels
    }}
* [https://archives.lib.umd.edu/repositories/2/resources/1480 William Baillie Baird papers] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210514021912/https://archives.lib.umd.edu/repositories/2/resources/1480 |date=14 May 2021 }}, at the [[University of Maryland Libraries|University of Maryland libraries]]. Baird was a commissioned organizer of the Knights of Labor.

====By others====
* A.C. Dunham, [http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/moa/moa-cgi?notisid=ABQ0722-0045-70 "The Knights of Labor,"] {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20121210193328/http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/moa/moa-cgi?notisid=ABQ0722-0045-70 |date=10 December 2012 }} ''New Englander and Yale Review,'' vol. 45, no. 195 (June 1886), pp.&nbsp;490–498.
* John Stephens Durham, [http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/moa/moa-cgi?notisid=ABK2934-0081-28 "The Labor Unions and the Negro,"] {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20121214150128/http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/moa/moa-cgi?notisid=ABK2934-0081-28 |date=14 December 2012 }} ''Atlantic Monthly,'' vol. 81, no. 484 (February 1898), pp.&nbsp;222–231.
* Henry George, [http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/moa/moa-cgi?notisid=ABQ7578-0145-3 "The New Party,"] {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20121212135859/http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/moa/moa-cgi?notisid=ABQ7578-0145-3 |date=12 December 2012 }} ''North American Review,'' vol. 145, no. 368 (July 1887), pp.&nbsp;1–8.
* Rufus Hatch, [http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/moa/moa-cgi?notisid=ABQ7578-0142-72 "The Labor Crisis,"] {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20121211120150/http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/moa/moa-cgi?notisid=ABQ7578-0142-72 |date=11 December 2012 }} ''North American Review,'' vol. 142, no. 355 (June 1886), pp.&nbsp;602–607.
* Richard J. Hinton, [http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/moa/moa-cgi?notisid=ABQ7578-0140-7 "American Labor Organizations,"] {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20121211143551/http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/moa/moa-cgi?notisid=ABQ7578-0140-7 |date=11 December 2012 }} ''North American Review,'' vol. 140, no. 338 (January 1885), pp.&nbsp;48–63.
* M.E.J. Kelley, [http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/moa/moa-cgi?notisid=ABQ7578-0166-38 "Women and the Labor Movement] {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20121210091241/http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/moa/moa-cgi?notisid=ABQ7578-0166-38 |date=10 December 2012 }}, ''North American Review,'' vol. 166, no. 497 (April 1898), pp.&nbsp;408–418.
* George Frederic Parsons, [http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/moa/moa-cgi?notisid=ABK2934-0058-12 "The Labor Question,"] {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20121214150837/http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/moa/moa-cgi?notisid=ABK2934-0058-12 |date=14 December 2012 }} ''Atlantic Monthly,'' vol. 58, no. 345 (July 1886), pp.&nbsp;97–113.
* Carroll D. Wright, "An Historical Sketch of the Knights of Labor," ''Quarterly Journal of Economics,'' vol. 1, no. 2 (January 1887), pp.&nbsp;137–168.