Leon Fink
Focusing on the operation and influence of the Knights of Labor --- the leading labor organization of the nineteenth century --- Workingmen's Democracy explores the dreams, achievements, and failures of a movement that sought to renew the democratic potential of American institutions., "The pick of a growing crop of studies on the American working class." -- ,The Nation, "An important work, the best of several recent volumes on the Knights." -- ,American Historical Review, Â 
Labor,History
Workingmen's Democracy: The Knights of Labor and American Politics