"Go to the worker" : America's labor apostles / Kimball Baker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baker, Kimball, 1941-

Series:

Marquette studies in theology ; #70.

Marquette studies in theology ; no. 70

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labor--Religious aspects--Catholic Church.

Labor.

Church work with the working class--United States--History.

Church work with the working class.

Catholics--United States--Biography.

Catholics.

Catholic Worker Movement.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (276 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Milwaukee, Wis. : Marquette University Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Go to the worker"-that was the central message of the Catholic social-action movement which flourished in the United States from the mid-1930s to the mid-1950s. And, according to a book by that title recently published by Marquette University Press, the message is as fresh and powerful today as it was in the Great Depression to which this movement responded. "Go to the Worker": America's Labor Apostles, by historian Kimball Baker, tells the movement's story by profiling 10 of the movement's leaders, and traces the origins of the movement. These include Catholic social teachings ("Go to the wo

Contents:

half title: "Go to the Worker"; title page: "Go to the Worker": America's Labor Apostles by Kimball Baker; Contents; copyright page; Timeline; Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Preface; Foreword; Chapter One John Hayes (1906-2002); Chapter Two John Cort (1913-2006); Chapter Three Bert Donlin (1910-1999); Social Action Vignette Linna Bresette: Social Action Trailblazer; Chapter Four Joseph Buckley (1919-2001); Social Action Vignette Boston Labor Guild: The Labor Guild Lives on; Chapter Five Ed Marciniak (1918-2004); Chapter Six Thomas Darby (1907-1992)

Chapter Seven Karl Hubble (1912-2005)Chapter Eight Charles Ow en Rice(1908-2005); Chapter Nine Philip Carey (1907-1989); Social Action Vignette New Orleans: "A Stormy Petrel"; Chapter Ten George Higgins (1916-2002); Suggested Books for Further Reading; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p.[259]-260) and index.

ISBN:

0-87462-775-3

OCLC:

721195102