Author: Kanchi Venugopal Reddy
Publisher: Mittal Publications
Published: 2005-01-01
Total Pages: 112
ISBN-13: 9788183240116
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Anon
Publisher: Hesperides Press
Published: 2006-11
Total Pages: 156
ISBN-13: 1406718262
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Hesperides Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Author: John McDermott (professor.)
Publisher: South End Press
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9780896080140
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Author: Gus Hall
Publisher: International Pub
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9780717806591
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A collection of writings on the U.S. working class and the class struggle by a lifelong participant, with new material especially for this volume.
Author: Erik S. Gellman
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2011-07-15
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 025209333X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this exceptional dual biography and cultural history, Erik S. Gellman and Jarod Roll trace the influence of two southern activist preachers, one black and one white, who used their ministry to organize the working class in the 1930s and 1940s across lines of gender, race, and geography. Owen Whitfield and Claude Williams, along with their wives Zella Whitfield and Joyce Williams, drew on their bedrock religious beliefs to stir ordinary men and women to demand social and economic justice in the eras of the Great Depression, New Deal, and Second World War. Williams and Whitfield preached a working-class gospel rooted in the American creed that hard, productive work entitled people to a decent standard of living. Gellman and Roll detail how the two preachers galvanized thousands of farm and industrial workers for the Southern Tenant Farmers Union and the Congress of Industrial Organizations. They also link the activism of the 1930s and 1940s to that of the 1960s and emphasize the central role of the ministers' wives, with whom they established the People's Institute for Applied Religion. This detailed narrative illuminates a cast of characters who became the two couples' closest allies in coordinating a complex network of activists that transcended Jim Crow racial divisions, blurring conventional categories and boundaries to help black and white workers make better lives. In chronicling the shifting contexts of the actions of Whitfield and Williams, The Gospel of the Working Class situates Christian theology within the struggles of some of America's most downtrodden workers, transforming the dominant narratives of the era and offering a fresh view of the promise and instability of religion and civil rights unionism.