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  • Trailer

    Trailer
    2025/02/16

    On Storm The Fort, we'll dive into the history of the Noble and Holy Order of the Knights of Labor, the first national labor organization to organize all workers regardless of class, race, or gender, to learn what made them special and what we can learn from them today.


    First episode arriving on April 10, 2025

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    6 分
  • Episode 2: Behind Labor's Veil

    Episode 2: Behind Labor's Veil
    2025/04/10
    After its founding in 1869, the Knights of Labor remains a relatively secretive and covert operation in its early years. All around it, the country is transformed by a major depression, third-party political action, and new forms of labor organizing that will lead to a newly powerful and coherent organization.

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    51 分
  • Episode 1: One Nation, Under Capital

    Episode 1: One Nation, Under Capital
    2025/04/10
    America emerges from the Civil War a newly industrialized nation. As the dust settles and industry expands rapidly, the labor movement seeks to keep up with a newly concentrated capitalism and offer its own interpretation of what true freedom means.

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    52 分
  • Episode 3: Labor's Independence Day

    Episode 3: Labor's Independence Day
    2025/04/17
    The most violent strike in US labor history brings in new members and new leadership, forcing the Knights of Labor to become a truly national organization. Taking on the mantle of Grand Master Workman, machinist Terence Powderly begins to move the Knights away from secrecy.

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    55 分
  • Episode 4: Workingmen's Democracy

    Episode 4: Workingmen's Democracy
    2025/04/17
    The Knights’ move away from secrecy brings in more members from different backgrounds, but also more division and challenges as trade unionists and radicals make their voices heard. Organizers spread across the country and begin to put together what will become the largest labor movement in American history to that point, and launch the order's first national strike.

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    57 分
  • Episode 5: War on the Western Rails

    Episode 5: War on the Western Rails
    2025/04/24
    After a series of bruising defeats, many Knights begin to look at different options for how to bring about the cooperative commonwealth. As the national organization begins to rebuild, a renegade group of railroad workers in the west draw the Knights into conflict with one of the most hated robber barons of the era.

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    54 分
  • Episode 6: A Rather Unwieldy Body

    Episode 6: A Rather Unwieldy Body
    2025/04/24
    In the wake of the greatest victory that American organized labor had ever seen, the Knights of Labor become the fastest growing labor organization in history. In this growth they see more diversity, more opportunity, and more division than they have had to deal with before, and begin to position themselves for an even greater showdown with the capitalist class.

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    53 分
  • Episode 7: The Great Upheaval

    Episode 7: The Great Upheaval
    2025/05/01
    After becoming the largest labor organization in American history, the Knights of Labor find themselves drawn into a series of titanic conflicts with some of the most powerful men and organizations of the Gilded Age. This is the first of three episodes dedicated to the great upheaval of 1886.

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    56 分