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Redeeming Time - Protestantism and Chicago's Eight-Hour Movement, 1866-1912 (Hardcover)
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Redeeming Time - Protestantism and Chicago's Eight-Hour Movement, 1866-1912 (Hardcover)
Series: Working Class in American History
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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. Mirola explores how the city's eight-hour movement
intersected with a Protestant religious culture that supported long
hours to keep workers from idleness, intemperance, and secular
leisure activities. Analyzing how both workers and clergy rewove
working-class religious cultures and ideologies into strategic and
rhetorical frames, Mirola shows how every faith-based appeal
contested whose religious meanings would define labor conditions
and conflicts. As he notes, the ongoing worker-employer tension
transformed both how clergy spoke about the eight-hour movement and
what they were willing to do, until intensified worker protest and
employer intransigence spurred Protestant clergy to support the
eight-hour movement even as political and economic arguments
eclipsed religious framing.
A revealing study of an era and a movement, Redeeming Time
illustrates the potential--and the limitations--of religious
culture and religious leaders as forces in industrial reform.
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