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By the Nineties the Knights of Labor , which included farmers and tradesmen and stood for a wide variety of reforms , was giving way to the American Federation of Labor , an organization devoted to labor with belligerent exclusiveness .
By the Nineties the Knights of Labor , which included farmers and tradesmen and stood for a wide variety of reforms , was giving way to the American Federation of Labor , an organization devoted to labor with belligerent exclusiveness .
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The American Economic Association , now a staid academic organization , was anything but staid in its origins . Its prospectus was an assault on conservative economists who dealt in " final statements , " and on their theories , which ...
The American Economic Association , now a staid academic organization , was anything but staid in its origins . Its prospectus was an assault on conservative economists who dealt in " final statements , " and on their theories , which ...
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The only organization that could pretend to speak for any large body of workers during the Twenties , the American Federation of Labor , had always stood , as President Gompers said , for getting “ more and more - and then more " for ...
The only organization that could pretend to speak for any large body of workers during the Twenties , the American Federation of Labor , had always stood , as President Gompers said , for getting “ more and more - and then more " for ...
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