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1 online resource (242 pages, 16 pages of plates) : illustrations, portraits |
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Great Lakes books
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Great Lakes books
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| Note |
The publication of this volume in a freely accessible digital format has been made possible by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Mellon Foundation through their Humanities Open Book Program |
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31 black & white photos |
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Open Access Electronic Book |
| Bibliog. |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-309) and index |
| Contents |
A knighthood flowers -- A backwoods boyhood -- Passionate stirrings -- Waving the red flag -- Strange bedfellows -- Toward one big union -- Epiphany -- Tempestuous times -- A bomb is thrown -- Open warfare -- The showdown -- Working with gompers -- Pet radical -- A humbling job -- Jabs from right and left -- A millionaire patron -- A pack rat's hoard -- Looking back on it all -- Epilogue : the flame is passed -- Afterword : the Labadie Collection today / by Edward C. Weber |
| Summary |
All-American Anarchist chronicles the life and work of Joseph A. Labadie (1850-1933), Detroit's prominent labor organizer and one of early labor's most influential activists. A dynamic participant in the major social reform movements of the Gilded Age, Labadie was a central figure in the pervasive struggle for a new social order as the American Midwest underwent rapid industrialization at the end of the nineteenth century. This engaging biography follows Labadie's colorful career from a childhood among a Pottawatomie tribe in the Michigan woods through his local and national involvement in a maze of late nineteenth-century labor and reform activities, including participation in the Socialist Labor party, Knights of Labor, Greenback movement, trades councils, typographical union, eight-hour-day campaigns, and the rise of the American Federation of Labor. Although he received almost no formal education, Labadie was a critical thinker and writer, contributing a column titled "Cranky Notions" to Benjamin Tucker's Liberty, the most important journal of American anarchism. He interacted with such influential rebels and reformers as Eugene V. Debs, Emma Goldman, Henry George, Samuel Gompers, and Terence V. Powderly, and was also a poet of both protest and sentiment, composing more than five hundred poems between 1900 and 1920. Affectionately known as Detroit's "Gentle Anarchist," Labadie's flamboyant and amiable personality counteracted his caustic writings, making him one of the city's most popular figures throughout his long life despite his dissident ideals. His individualistic anarchist philosophy was also balanced by his conventional personal life - he was married to a devout Catholic and even worked for the city's water commission to make ends meet. In writing this biography of her grandfather, Carlotta R. Anderson consulted the renowned Labadie Collection at the University of Michigan, a unique collection of protest literature which extensively documents pivotal times in American labor history and radical history. She also had available a large collection of family scrapbooks, letters, photographs, and Labadie's personal account book. Including passages from Labadie's vast writings, poems, and letters, All-American Anarchist traces America's recurring anti-anarchist and anti-radical frenzy and repression, from the 1886 Haymarket bombing backlash to the Red Scares of the twentieth century |
| Biographical Sketch |
Carlotta R. Anderson has published articles in Smithsonian, Inquiry, Michigan History, Chicago Tribune, Newsday, San Francisco Chronicle, Denver Post, Boston Globe, Philadelphia Inquirer, and Toledo Blade. She lives in Glen Echo, Maryland |
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Labadie, Jo, 1850-1933
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Anarchists -- United States -- Biography
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Labor movement -- Michigan -- History
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Electronic books
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Ohio Library and Information Network
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Wayne State University Libraries Digital Collections
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| OCLC Number |
1010497383 |
| ISBN |
0814343279 |
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9780814343272 |
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0814343260 |
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9780814343265 |
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0814343260 |
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0814327079 |
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9780814327074 |
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