LABRST 1A03 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Family Values, Cultural Movement, White Coat

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Labour Studies
• Course: LABRST 1A03
• Professor: David Goutor

Document Summary

1885 explosion in membership, never been this kind of explosion in the number of members. At some point in the 1880"s 3 million people had joined the organization. Growing so fast that the organization couldn"t keep up, in canada there was 100,000 people that joined at some point. Were open in a much more broad base of way, open to wide range of workers, were not like craft unions. The knights were flexible, and the knights would let them form assemblies whichever way they wanted. Made the knights allow a lot of workers join the knight"s assembly and made work available, were much more open in his regard, and allowed them to grow. There idea was not controlling a trade, but representing the workers and made them an idealistic and moralistic organization. The knights wanted to insist that work had an inherit value, said there is an inherit value to work.