But thereâs sweet irony in seeing founders of a recruitment startup face similar challenges. Iâve been wrestling with this process myself, spending most of the past 2 months making our first key hires for RecruitLoop in San Francisco.
Library of Congress. Uriah Stephens (1821-82) founded the Knights of Labor, the first national industrial union in the United States, in Philadelphia in December 1869 and led the organization until he resigned his post as Grand Master Workman in 1879.
KNIGHTS OF LABOR. KNIGHTS OF LABOR. The Noble Order of the Knights of Labor reached a peak membership of around 700,000 in the mid-1880s, making it the largest and most important labor organization in nineteenth-century America. The complexities of its organization, ideology, and activities reflected the problems that afflicted the American labor movement.