The Gospel of Church: How Mainline Protestants Vilified Christian Socialism and Fractured the Labor Movement
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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...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0197614302
ISBN13:9780197614303
Release Date:September 2023
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Length:328 Pages
Weight:1.15 lbs.
Dimensions:1.1" x 6.5" x 9.3"
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