Struggle for the Soul of the Postwar South : White Evangelical Protestants and Operation Dixie /

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"This study provides new answers to one of the most perplexing questions facing historians of labor and of the South: why were workers so resistant to the efforts of unions and liberals to reform the region? Elizabeth and Ken Fones-Wolf add evangelical Protestantism to the narrative of how work...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fones-Wolf, Ken
Other Authors: Fones-Wolf, Elizabeth A., 1954-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2015]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Congress of Industrial Organizations (U.S.)
Congress of Industrial Organizations (U.S.) > History.
Social classes.
Labor unions > Organizing.
Labor movement > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Evangelicalism.
Christian conservatism.
RELIGION > Christianity > Protestant.
HISTORY > United States > 20th century.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
Classes sociales > États-Unis.
Conservatisme chretien > États-Unis.
Évangelisme > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire.
Mouvement ouvrier > Aspect religieux > Christianisme.
Syndicalisation > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire.
Social classes > United States.
Christian conservatism > United States.
Evangelicalism > Southern States > History.
Labor unions > Organizing > Southern States > History.
United States.
Southern States.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Title; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; A Note on Religious Terms; Introduction; 1 The Wages of the Problem South
  • 2 Unrest in Zion: Southern Churches in Depression and War; 3 If You Read Your Bible: The Faith of Southern White Workers; 4 Constructing a Region of Christian Free Enterprise; 5 The Bible Speaks to Labor; 6 Ministering in Communities of Struggle; 7 Red Scares and Black Scares; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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