The First-and-a-half International: The Knights of Labor and the History of International Labour Organization in the Nineteenth Century

Review of periodical literature published in 2015

“…Young uses the study of the trial for mutiny of 15 Chinese ‘coolies’ in British‐ruled Hong Kong to examine the role of British labour law in foreign courts during the late nineteenth century. Changing the direction of international influence, Parfitt examines the activities and influence in Britain and Europe of the American Order of the Knights of Labor.…”