This important work offers a new view of the Wobblies by examining not only their connection to American culture but their relationship to early twentieth-century American religion. Winters firmly believes that there is a strong religious character in the Wobblies. He focuses on figures such as Eugene Debs and Father Hagerty, depicting them as early pioneers of the unique beliefs the I.W.W. would adopt. He demonstrates and analyzes this religious motif in newspaper articles, speeches, autobiographies, songs, propaganda, and poems. Next, he examines the implications of the 1916 Wobbly-led strike on Minnesota's Mesabi Range for the immigrant Finnish population and its religious values. He concludes by assessing the place of the I.W.W. in American labor history and by scrutinizing the relationship between the Wobblies, progressives, and utopian novelists in the period prior to World War I.
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In his introduction to The Preacher and the Slave, a 1950 novel about the I.W.W. martyr, Joe Hill, Wallace Stegnar writes that "no thoroughly adequate history of the I.W.W. exists." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
labor version, social gospel movement, employing class, prophetic religion, industrial unionism, civil religion Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Joe Hill, Salvation Army, Industrial Workers of the World, Ralph Chaplin, Mesabi Range, Billy Sunday, Progressive Era, Covington Hall, World War, United States, Father Hagerty, International Publishers, American Protestantism, Bill Haywood, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Melvyn Dubofsky, Social Crisis, Walter Rauschenbusch, Edward Bellamy, Fred Thompson, Carl Sandburg, Eugene Debs, Jesus Christ, Old Testament New!
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In his introduction to The Preacher and the Slave, a 1950 novel about the I.W.W. martyr, Joe Hill, Wallace Stegnar writes that "no thoroughly adequate history of the I.W.W. exists." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
labor version, social gospel movement, employing class, prophetic religion, industrial unionism, civil religion Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Joe Hill, Salvation Army, Industrial Workers of the World, Ralph Chaplin, Mesabi Range, Billy Sunday, Progressive Era, Covington Hall, World War, United States, Father Hagerty, International Publishers, American Protestantism, Bill Haywood, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Melvyn Dubofsky, Social Crisis, Walter Rauschenbusch, Edward Bellamy, Fred Thompson, Carl Sandburg, Eugene Debs, Jesus Christ, Old Testament New!
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- We Shall Be All: A History of the Industrial Workers of the World (abridged ed.) (Working Class in American History) by Melvyn Dubofsky on 13 pages
- Rebel Voices by Joyce L. Kornbluh on 6 pages
- Christianity and the Social Crisis (Library of Theological Ethics) by Walter Rauschenbusch on 6 pages
- Joe Hill by Gibbs Smith on 5 pages
- Reflections on Violence (Dover Books on History, Political and Social Science) by Georges Sorel on 5 pages
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- American Studies: An Annotated Bibliography 1984-1988 by Jack Salzman on page 628
- Partisans and Poets: The Political Work of American Poetry in the Great War (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture) by Mark W. van Wienen in Back Matter
- Workin' Man Blues: Country Music in California by Gerald W. Haslam in Back Matter
- Revolutionary Industrial Unionism: The Industrial Workers of the World in Australia by Verity Burgmann in Back Matter
- The Evangelist and the Impresario: Religion, Entertainment, and Cultural Politics in America, 1884-1914 (New Studies in American Intellectual and Cultural History) by Professor Kathryn J. Oberdeck in Back Matter
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