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Hardcover The Gospel of Church: How Mainline Protestants Vilified Christian Socialism and Fractured the Labor Movement Book

ISBN: 0197614302

ISBN13: 9780197614303

The Gospel of Church: How Mainline Protestants Vilified Christian Socialism and Fractured the Labor Movement

In 1908, Unitarian pastor Bertrand Thompson observed the momentous growth of the labor movement with alarm. "Socialism," he wrote, "has become a distinct substitute" for the church. He was not wrong.

In the generation after the Civil War, few of the migrants who moved North and West to take jobs in factories and mines had any association with traditional Protestant denominations. In the place of church, workers built a labor movement around...

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