Christian labor and the politics of frustration in Imperial Germany / by Eric Dorn Brose
1985, First Edition. Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press. Fine cloth copy in a very good, somewhat edge-bumped and dust-stained dust wrapper. Remains well-preserved overall. Item #464309
ISBN: 0813205891
Physical description; x, 410 pages ; 24 cm. Contents; The center Party, the Kulturkampf, and the collapse of the first Christian-social movement -- Monchen-Gladbach, Rerum Novarum, and further disputes over Christian trade unionism -- The emergence of Christian labor -- Centralization efforts and the question of trade union politics -- The great merger controversy -- Tariffs, "center party unions," and grass-roots stagnation -- The Frankfurt Workers' Congress of 1903 -- Christian-national Blockpolitik -- The collapse of the Frankfurt Initiative and trade union tactics 1907-1913 -- Rifts in the tower: the conflict over modernism in the center, Volksverein, and Christian trade unions -- Financial reform, bourgeois solidarity, and the radicalization of Christian labor on the eve of war -- Christian labor and the collapse of the old order. Subjects; Labor unions. Germany. History. Catholic labor unions. Germany. History. Church and social problems. Germany. History. Germany. Politics and government. 1871-1918.
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