Rhetoric Society Quarterly Jan 2016

“Honest Toil”: Labor, the Body, and Citizenship in the Knights of Labor, 1880–1890

Jennifer Keohane

Abstract

In this essay, I analyze anti-Chinese rhetoric produced by the Knights of Labor to explore how labor functions as a performance of citizenship. I argue that Knights deployed citizenship as a embodiable topos, using the physicality of labor as a channel to claim inclusion in the national polity despite their marginalized class status.

Journal
Rhetoric Society Quarterly
Published
2016-01-01
DOI
10.1080/02773945.2015.1106576
Open Access
Closed

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