The Politics of Labor : A Critique of American Radical Social Thought by a Canadian Labor Spokesman in 1887 / T. Phillips Thompson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thompson, T. Phillips, Author.

Contributor:

Atherton, Jay.

Series:

Social history of Canada ; 28.

Heritage

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Socialism.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (291 pages).

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

1886 witnessed the height of a period of violent industrial strife in North America. In that year the eight-hour day movement culminated in Chicago's notorious Haymarket Riot. Both the Trades and Labor Congress of Canada and the American Federation of Labor became firmly established and held their first annual meetings; the Knights of Labor were at their peak. Unemployment, working dislocation, and social unrest were focusing public attention on the abuses of the emerging industrial system. Those with power -- the big business monopolies -- were exploiting those without, and the various levels of government seemed unable or unwilling to intervene. It was all too evident that wealth and progress were for the few, and poverty and alienation were for the many. What were the cases of this inequality, and how could the balance be restored? This was the 'Labor Question' that engaged the imagination of so many writers in the 1880s, men such as Henry George, Laurence Gronlund, Edward Bellamy -- and T. Phillips Thompson. Thompson was one of the leading spokesmen of the Canadian labor and socialist movements for over three decades. This book presents a distillation of his thought in a constructive critique of the American political and economic system. Time has proved Thompson a prophet: much of what he advocated in The Politics of Labor has come to pass in the years since 1886.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

An introduction / Atherton, Jay

The social history of Canada / Bliss, Michael

CONTENTS

THE POLITICS OF LABOR

APPENDIX 1

APPENDIX 2. LABOR REFORM SONGSTER

FRONT MATTER 2

INTRODUCTION

INDEX

THE LABOR REFORM SONGSTER

THE SOCIAL HISTORY OF CANADA

Notes:

Appendixes (p. 213-230, 1-34): 1. Four articles written for the Palladium of labor.--2. The labor reform songster.

Reprint of the 1887 ed. published by Belford, Clark, New York; with new introd. and appendixes.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Nov 2019)

ISBN:

1-4875-8397-4

OCLC:

1129217853