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Union Made - Working People and the Rise of Social Christianity in Chicago (Paperback)
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Union Made - Working People and the Rise of Social Christianity in Chicago (Paperback)
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In Gilded Age America, rampant inequality gave rise to a new form
of Christianity, one that sought to ease the sufferings of the poor
not simply by saving their souls, but by transforming society. In
Union Made, Heath W. Carter advances a bold new interpretation of
the origins of American Social Christianity. While historians have
often attributed the rise of the Social Gospel to middle-class
ministers, seminary professors, and social reformers, this book
places working people at the very center of the story. The major
characters-blacksmiths, glove makers, teamsters, printers, and the
like-have been mostly forgotten, but as Carter convincingly argues,
their collective contribution to American Social Christianity was
no less significant than that of Walter Rauschenbusch or Jane
Addams. Leading readers into the thick of late-19th-century
Chicago's tumultuous history, Carter shows that countless
working-class believers participated in the heated debates over the
implications of Christianity for industrializing society, often
with as much fervor as they did in other contests over wages and
the length of the workday. The city's trade unionists, socialists,
and anarchists advanced theological critiques of laissez faire
capitalism and protested "scab ministers" who cozied up to the
business elite. Their criticisms compounded church leaders'
anxieties about losing the poor, such that by the
turn-of-the-century many leading Christians were arguing that the
only way to salvage hopes of a Christian America was for the
churches to soften their position on "the labor question." As
denomination after denomination did just that, it became apparent
that the Social Gospel was, indeed, ascendant-from below. At a time
when the fate of the labor movement and rising economic inequality
are once more pressing social concerns, Union Made opens the door
for a new way forward-by changing the way we think about the past.
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