Arkansas’s gilded age the rise, decline, and legacy of populism and working-class protest / Matthew Hild.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hild, Matthew, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Working class--Arkansas--History--19th century.

Working class.

Protest movements--Arkansas--History--19th century.

Protest movements.

Populism--Arkansas--History--19th century.

Populism.

Labor movement--Arkansas--History--19th century.

Labor movement.

Arkansas--History--1865-.

Arkansas.

Arkansas--Politics and government--To 1950.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (221 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2018

Place of Publication:

Columbia : University of Missouri Press, [2018]

Summary:

This book is the first devoted entirely to an examination of working-class activism, broadly defined as that of farmers' organizations, labor unions, and (often biracial) political movements, in Arkansas during the Gilded Age. On one level, Hild argues for the significance of this activism in its own time: had the Arkansas Democratic Party not resorted to undemocratic, unscrupulous, and violent means of repression, the Arkansas Union Labor Party would have taken control of the state government in the election of 1888. He also argues that the significance of these movements lasted beyond their own time, their influence extending into the biracial Southern Tenant Farmers' Union of the 1930s, the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, and even today's Farmers' Union and the United Mine Workers of America.The story of farmer and labor protest in Arkansas during the late nineteenth century offers lessons relevant to contemporary working-class Americans in what some observers have called the "new Gilded Age."

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Foreword by Raymond Arsenault

Acknowledgments

Introduction

I. The Roots of Discontent

II. Building the Foundations of Rebellion

III. The Great Upheaval

IV. The Union Labor Party

V. Populism and the Depression of the 1890s

VI. Twentieth-Century Legacies

Appendixes

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780826274182

0826274188

OCLC:

1048880803