Editing Knights of Labor (section)

=== Unskilled vs. Skilled Workers ===
Scholars pit the skilled and unskilled workers as another reason for the Knights of Labor's downfall. The Union worked for both groups, but since the results of the union efforts often benefited one or the other and not both, the tension persisted. <ref name=":22">{{Cite journal |last=Voss |first=Kim |date=1988 |title=Labor Organization and Class Alliance: Industries, Communities, and the Knights of Labor |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/657519 |journal=Theory and Society |volume=17 |issue=3 |pages=329–364 |doi=10.1007/BF00160843 |issn=0304-2421 |jstor=657519 |s2cid=147551660 |access-date=5 May 2023 |archive-date=27 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230327174422/https://www.jstor.org/stable/657519 |url-status=live }}</ref> Unskilled workers often benefited from equal opportunities. Skilled workers would become upset when someone took their jobs with less skill. Skilled workers benefit from better pay, but many unskilled workers do not receive those benefits. This tension discouraged new members and lead existing ones to leave the Knights of Labor and ultimately caused many members to leave.<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal |last=Kaufman |first=Jason |date=2001 |title=Rise and Fall of a Nation of Joiners: The Knights of Labor Revisited |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/206859 |journal=The Journal of Interdisciplinary History |volume=31 |issue=4 |pages=553–579 |doi=10.1162/00221950151115089 |jstor=206859 |issn=0022-1953 |access-date=2 September 2017 |archive-date=25 April 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200425134321/https://www.jstor.org/stable/206859 |url-status=live }}</ref>