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This 5 page paper broaches several ideas. The Knights of Labor and the AFL are focal points. Ideas to emanate from these organizations are discussed. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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of a new labor movement came about (Bennett, 2001). It is reminiscent of the labor movement that emanated from earlier in the century (2001). The thinking of the leaders
of the Knights of Labor was to an extent the continuation of labors views on the role of government, the rights of man and the participation of people in the
government. At the same time, it seems that the later movement would be more likely to embrace the rights of Africans. By this time, the Civil War would be over.
The slaves were freed. It was also a time when the womens movement was significant. Bennett (2001) writes: "During and immediately after the Civil War many prominent labor leaders supported
the Radical Republicans in their efforts to reconstruct society" (35). Indeed, reconstruction would be needed. After the Civil War things changed. Perhaps the most significant change was that the now
freed slaves would compete in the labor market. The thinking of the day in respect to government was similar to that of an earlier era, except the later laborers
were a bit more radical. They believed in the system but also realized that there was much corruption in government; they believed that the people should participate (Bennett, 2001). In
effect, the government should be run by the people (2001). This is not by any means a new notion, but it is something that would be embraced most by the
labor unions of the latter part of the nineteenth century. The idea to abolish the wage system was something that suggested reform but did not mean to say
all wages should be abolished (Walker, 2001). That would be absurd. Rather, the idea is that the wage system was broken. Powderly had some ideas in terms of how to
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