Counterfeiting Labor's Voice

Mark A. Lause is a professor in the department of history at the University of Cincinnati. His many books include Free Spirits: Spiritualism, Republicanism, and Radicalism in the Civil War Era and Free Labor: The Civil War and the Making of an American Working Class.

Introduction

Acknowledgments

Prologue  Carsey’s Paternities: The Son of the Streets and the Odysseys of Father Columbia



Paper Party Power Broker: The Entrepreneurial Roots of Labor Reform Insurgency
Independents and Partisan Pantomimes: The Dilemma of Third Parties under a Two-Party System
Counterfeiting Class: The Secret Society Tradition and the Deep Origins of the American Federation of Labor
Monopolizing Antimonopolism: Ben Butler and the Preemption of Insurgency
The Path through Populism: From Henry George to William Jennings Bryan

Epilogue  Carsey’s Progeny: The Forgotten Grandfather of American Progressivism and the Political Unmaking of an American Working Class

Notes

Index