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Enlisting memory in a new fight for freedom
From the Gilded Age through the Progressive era, labor movements reinterpreted Abraham Lincoln as a liberator of working people while workers equated activism with their own service fighting for freedom during the war. Matthew E. Stanley explores the wide-ranging meanings and diverse imagery used by Civil War veterans within the sprawling radical politics of the time. As he shows, a rich world of rituals, songs, speeches, and newspapers emerged among the many strains of working class cultural politics within the labor movement. Yet tensions arose even among allies. Some people rooted Civil War commemoration in nationalism and reform, and in time, these conservative currents marginalized radical workers who tied their remembering to revolution, internationalism, and socialism. An original consideration of meaning and memory, Grand Army of Labor reveals the complex ways workers drew on themes of emancipation and equality in the long battle for workers' rights.
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CoverTitle PageCopyrightContentsForewordAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: A Second Great EmancipatorChapter 1. King Labor: Workers Imagine Emancipation beyond EqualityChapter 2. Southern Palm, Northern Pine: Greenbackers and the Reconciliation of ClassChapter 3. Against Masters and Money Power: The Knights of Labor and Wage SlaveryChapter 4. The Red Flag of Emancipation: Socialism and Revolutionary MemoryChapter 5. The Blue-Gray Campaign: Populism and White ReunionChapter 6. Citadel of Labor: The American Federation of Labor and Reformist MemoryChapter 7. The Blue and the Gray and the Red: The Rise and Repression of Proletarian MemoryEpilogue: Resurrecting John Brown's BodyNotesBibliographyIndexBack cover
