Trade Union Gospel: Christianity and Labor in Industrial Philadelphia, 1865-1915 (American Civilization)

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This study traces the interaction of religion and the labor movement in Philadelphia within the overdue nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Exploring the ways in which Protestantism mediated between the dominant and working-class versions of American society, Ken Fones-Wolf examines the anomaly of Christianity as a social force in class conflict. The usage of Philadelphia as a case study, he shows that aspects of working-class culture and trade union activism were rooted in Protestantism and that religious feeling was once a major factor of working-class life. Whilst religious values complemented a broad spectrum of political and class positions and helped people adjust to social change, Christianity itself was once a dynamic force that adapted to emerging ideas of social responsibility and the jarring disjunctions between old beliefs and new realities. Creator note: Ken Fones-Wolf heads the archives and teaches labor history on the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He was once formerly Manuscripts Curator on the Urban Archives Center of Temple University.

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