Description: Further DetailsTitle: Struggle for the Soul of the Postwar SouthCondition: NewSubtitle: White Evangelical Protestants and Operation DixieISBN-10: 0252080661EAN: 9780252080661ISBN: 9780252080661Publisher: University of Illinois PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 02/26/2015Description: In 1946, the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) undertook Operation Dixie, an initiative to recruit industrial workers in the American South. Elizabeth and Ken Fones-Wolf plumb rarely used archival sources and rich oral histories to explore the CIO's fraught encounter with the evangelical Protestantism and religious culture of southern whites. The authors' nuanced look at working class religion reveals how laborers across the surprisingly wide evangelical spectrum interpreted their lives through their faith. Factors like conscience, community need, and lived experience led individual preachers to become union activists and mill villagers to defy the foreman and minister alike to listen to organizers. As the authors show, however, all sides enlisted belief in the battle. In the end, the inability of northern organizers to overcome the suspicion with which many evangelicals viewed modernity played a key role in Operation Dixie's failure, with repercussions for labor and liberalism that are still being felt today. Identifying the role of the sacred in the struggle for southern economic justice, and placing class as a central aspect in southern religion, Struggle for the Soul of the Postwar South provides new understandings of how whites in the region wrestled with the options available to them during a crucial period of change and possibility.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 235mmItem Length: 156mmItem Width: 25mmAuthor: Elizabeth A. Fones-Wolf, Ken Fones-WolfGenre: Business & FinanceBook Series: Working Class in American HistoryTopic: Law & PoliticsItem Weight: 454gRelease Year: 2015 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Struggle for the Soul of the Postwar South
Title: Struggle for the Soul of the Postwar South
Subtitle: White Evangelical Protestants and Operation Dixie
ISBN-10: 0252080661
EAN: 9780252080661
ISBN: 9780252080661
Release Date: 02/26/2015
Release Year: 2015
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Business & Finance
Topic: Law & Politics
Number of Pages: 288 Pages
Publication Name: Struggle for the Soul of the Postwar South : White Evangelical Protestants and Operation Dixie
Language: English
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Subject: Labor & Industrial Relations, Christianity / Protestant, United States / 20th Century, Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Political Ideologies / Conservatism & Liberalism
Item Height: 1 in
Publication Year: 2015
Item Weight: 16 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Ken Fones-Wolf, Elizabeth A. Fones-Wolf
Item Length: 9.2 in
Subject Area: Religion, Political Science, Social Science, History
Series: Working Class in American History Ser.
Item Width: 6.2 in
Format: Trade Paperback
