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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791987103321

Autore

Baker Kimball <1941->

Titolo

"Go to the worker" [[electronic resource] ] : America's labor apostles / / Kimball Baker

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milwaukee, Wis., : Marquette University Press, c2010

ISBN

0-87462-775-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (276 p.)

Collana

Marquette studies in theology ; ; no. 70

Disciplina

267/.182092273

Soggetti

Labor - Religious aspects - Catholic Church

Church work with the working class - United States - History

Catholics - United States

Catholic Worker Movement

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p.[259]-260) and index.

Nota di contenuto

half title: "Go to the Worker"; title page: "Go to the Worker": America's Labor Apostles by Kimball Baker; Contents; copyright page; Timeline; Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Preface; Foreword; Chapter One John Hayes (1906-2002); Chapter Two John Cort (1913-2006); Chapter Three Bert Donlin (1910-1999); Social Action Vignette Linna Bresette: Social Action Trailblazer; Chapter Four Joseph Buckley (1919-2001); Social Action Vignette Boston Labor Guild: The Labor Guild Lives on; Chapter Five Ed Marciniak (1918-2004); Chapter Six Thomas Darby (1907-1992)

Chapter Seven Karl Hubble (1912-2005)Chapter Eight Charles Ow en Rice(1908-2005); Chapter Nine Philip Carey (1907-1989); Social Action Vignette New Orleans: "A Stormy Petrel"; Chapter Ten George Higgins (1916-2002); Suggested Books for Further Reading; Index

Sommario/riassunto

"Go to the worker"-that was the central message of the Catholic social-action movement which flourished in the United States from the mid-1930s to the mid-1950s. And, according to a book by that title recently published by Marquette University Press, the message is as fresh and powerful today as it was in the Great Depression to which this movement responded. "Go to the Worker": America's Labor Apostles, by historian Kimball Baker, tells the movement's story by profiling 10 of



the movement's leaders, and traces the origins of the movement. These include Catholic social teachings ("Go to the wo