06009cam a2200745Ki 4500 ocn895260041 OCoLC 20200709060121.0 m d cr cnu---unuuu 141114s2015 ilu ob 001 0 eng d N$T eng rda pn N$T OCLCO P@U YDXCP N$T 9780252096792 electronic bk. 0252096797 electronic bk. 9780252038839 0252038835 (OCoLC)895260041 760233 (N$T) n-us-il HD5126.C45 M57 2015eb BUS 038000 bisacsh POL 013000 bisacsh 331.25/7097731109034 23 POL013000 SOC039000 REL084000 bisacsh N$TA Mirola, William A. (William Andrew) Redeeming time : Protestantism and Chicago's eight-hour movement, 1866-1912 / William A. Mirola. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2015] 1 online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Working class in American history "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"-- Provided by publisher. "Exploring the intersection between Chicago's eight-hour movement and Protestant religious culture over a fifty-year span, this project considers how workers and clergy contested the religious meaning of the eight-hour system and the legitimacy of legislating limitations on overwork. Showing that behind every religious appeal was a contest over whose religious meanings would define industrial conditions and conflicts in Chicago, William Mirola examines how both workers and Protestant clergy wove and rewove working-class religious cultures and ideologies into strategic and rhetorical frames around the issue of an eight-hour workday. Mirola traces the successive framing of eight-hour reform from pre-1880s, when most Protestant clergy supported long hours to keep workers from idleness, intemperance, and secular leisure activities, through the 1890s, when eight-hour support among Protestant clergy gained ground as the result of a new social consciousness spurred by intensified worker protest and ongoing employer resistance to limiting working hours, into the early decades of the twentieth century, as religious framing of the eight-hour movement declined in favor of political and economic arguments. Mirola argues that the ongoing conflicts between Chicago workers and employers transformed both how clergy spoke about the eight-hour movement and what they were willing to do, through alliances with the labor movement, to see the eight-hour day enacted as industrial policy. By examining religious framing within the eight-hour movement, the author illustrates the potential and the limitations of religious culture and religious leaders as forces in industrial reform"-- Provided by publisher. Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record. Eight-hour movement Illinois Chicago History. Hours of labor Illinois Chicago History. Labor movement Illinois Chicago History. Labor movement Religious aspects Christianity. Protestant work ethic Illinois Chicago History. Protestantism Illinois Chicago. POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations. bisacsh SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion. bisacsh RELIGION / Religion, Politics & State. bisacsh Eight-hour movement. fast (OCoLC)fst00904042 Hours of labor. fast (OCoLC)fst00961863 Labor movement. fast (OCoLC)fst00990079 Labor movement Religious aspects Christianity. fast (OCoLC)fst00990104 Protestant work ethic. fast (OCoLC)fst01079917 Protestantism. fast (OCoLC)fst01079920 Illinois Chicago. fast (OCoLC)fst01204048 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor bisacsh History. fast (OCoLC)fst01411628 Electronic books. Print version: Mirola, William A. (William Andrew). Redeeming time 9780252038839 (DLC) 2014019855 (OCoLC)880929742 EBSCOhost http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=760233 http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780252096792/ Project MUSE EBSCOhost EBSC 760233 Project MUSE MUSE muse35759 YBP Library Services YANK 12012065 cpp6067 02 N$T 54755 54755