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Record 1 2019-01-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Organizations, Administrative Units and Committees
  • Union Organization
OBS

In the last third of the nineteenth century ... the Knights of Labor emerged. At first it was a secret society which all but "lawyers, gamblers or liquor dealers and Pinkerton detectives" could join. ... The Knights represented an attempt to form one great labor union to speak for all labor.

Key term(s)
  • Noble and Holy Order of the Knights of Labour
  • Knights of Labour

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes, unités administratives et comités
  • Organisation syndicale
DEF

Mouvement ouvrier américain fondé à Philadelphie en 1869, qui groupait les travailleurs en fonction de leur appartenance à une industrie plutôt qu'à un métier et qui préconisait l'abolition du salariat, l'action politique et le coopératisme.

Spanish

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