Knights of Labor Assemblies, 1879-1889 (ICPSR 29)

Published: Dec 1, 2009

Principal Investigator(s):
Jonathan Garlock, University of Rochester

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR00029.v1

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Project Description

Summary

This data collection provides information on the characteristics of almost 12,000 Knights of Labor Assemblies in the United States, Canada, and other nations for the period 1879 to 1889. Information is provided on the location of each assembly in the United States and Canada, their dates of origin, occupational categories and status, annual membership, the racial, sex, and ethnic composition of local assembly members, the population in 1880 and 1890 of the geographic location of local assemblies, and the last date in existence of local assemblies.

Citation

Garlock, Jonathan. Knights of Labor Assemblies, 1879-1889. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2009-12-01. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR00029.v1

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Subject Terms

industry Knights of Labor labor (work) labor history labor organizers labor strikes labor unions nineteenth century occupations Powderly, Terence V. Stephens, Uriah S. union membership work environment workers

Geographic Coverage

Canada United States Global

Scope of Project

Time Period(s)

1879 -- 1889

Data Collection Notes

The data maps are provided as ASCII text files, and the codebook is provided by ICPSR as a Portable Document Format (PDF) file.

Methodology

Universe

Knights of Labor Assemblies mainly in the United States and Canada in the period 1879 to 1889.

Data Source

(1) Journal of United Labor, 1880-1889, (2) Proceedings of the General Assembly of the Knights of Labor Annual Convention, 1879-1889, and (3) Report of the Illinois Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1886

Data Type(s)

administrative records data

aggregate data

survey data

Version(s)

Original Release Date

1984-05-03

Version Date

2009-12-01

Version History

1984-05-03 ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.

2009-12-01 Page 120 was omitted from the original online codebook. The entire codebook has since been rescanned to include the missing page.

Notes

Data in this collection are available only to users at ICPSR member institutions.
The citation of this study may have changed due to the new version control system that has been implemented.

This study is provided by ICPSR. ICPSR provides leadership and training in data access, curation, and methods of analysis for a diverse and expanding social science research community.