Union made : working people and the rise of social Christianity in Chicago / Heath W. Carter.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Carter, Heath W., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Labor unions--Religious aspects--Christianity.
• Labor unions--Illinois--Chicago--History.
• Labor movement--Religious aspects--Christianity.
• Labor movement--Illinois--Chicago--History.
• Christian sociology--Illinois--Chicago--History.
• Christian sociology.
• Labor movement.
• Labor unions.
• History.
• Illinois--Chicago.

Genre:

• History.

Physical Description:

xi, 277 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, [2015]

Contents:

• "Is the laborer worthy of his hire?" : Christianity and class in antebellum Chicago
• "Undefiled Christianity" : the rise of a working-class social gospel
• "It pays to go to church" : ministers, "the mob," and the scramble for working-class souls
• "With the prophets of old" : working people's challenge to the Gilded Age church
• "The divorce between labor and the church" : working people strike out on their own in 1894 Chicago
• "To Christianize Christianity" : labor on the move in turn-of-the-century Chicago
• "Social Christianity becomes official" : the rise of a middle-class social gospel.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-267) and index.

ISBN:

• 9780199385959
• 0199385955

OCLC:

906447393