Redeeming time : Protestantism and Chicago's eight-hour movement, 1866-1912 /
"During the struggle for the eight-hour workday and a shorter workweek, Chicago emerged as an important battleground for workers in "the entire civilized world" to redeem time from the workplace in order to devote it to education, civic duty, health, family, and leisure. William A. Mi...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
[2015]
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Colección: | Working class in American history.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Title page
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: Protestantism and Labor Reform Movements
- 1. A City of Industrial and Religious Extremes
- 2. Opening Eight-Hour Protests and the 1867 Eight-Hour Law
- 3. Eight Hours and the Financial Crisis of 1873
- 4. Marching to Haymarket and the 1886 Eight-Hour Campaign
- 5. A New Consciousness for Contructing a Morality of Leisure
- 6. Shifting Eight-Hour Reform from Consciousness to Creed in the Twentieth Century
- Conclusion: Religion and the Trajectory of Labor Reform Movements
- Notes