Doctoral Dissertation Research: Class and the Color Line: The Knights of Labor in the South, 1880-1890

比尔曼和格泰斯 本文通过对1880年至1890年间的骑士和劳工的研究，考察了美国南部阶级和种族的交叉。 它试图回答两个问题：什么样的经济和社会条件促进了骑士团的成功？ 南方白色和黑人工人是如何理解和构建自己的利益的？ 本研究结合骑士团组织在南方各县的分布的定量分析，报纸记录和手稿收藏的定性检查，以及里士满和亚特兰大的骑士团组织的案例研究。 ***

Bearman and Gerteis This dissertation examines the intersection of class and race in the U.S. South by focusing on the Knights and Labor between 1880 and 1890. It seeks to answer two questions: What economic and social conditions facilitated the success of the Knights? How did white and black Southern workers understand and construct their own interests? The study combines quantitative analysis of the distributions of Knights' organizations in Southern counties, qualitative examination of newspaper records and manuscript collections, and case studies of the Knights organizations in Richmond and Atlanta. ***