Libraries, Knowledge, and the Common Good: The Cultural Politics of Labor Republicanism in Progressive-Era Wheeling, West Virginia

Authors

Jonathan Cope, CUNY College of Staten IslandFollow

Document Type

Book Chapter or Section

Publication Date

2017

Abstract

An analysis of the Ohio Valley Trades and Labor Assembly's campaign to defeat a proposed Carnegie library in Wheeling, West Virginia in 1904.

Comments

This chapter was originally published in Libraries - traditions and innovations: Papers from the Library History Seminar XIII, edited by Melanie A. Kimball and Katherine M. Wisser.