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03370aam a2200457 i 4500 001 FF375FE4F70511E582760BA0DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20160331010051 008 141027s2015 ilua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2014030669 020 $a 0252080661 020 $a 9780252080661 020 $a 0252039033 020 $a 9780252039034 035 $a (OCoLC)893454460 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDX $d BTCTA $d YDXCP $d BDX $d OCLCF $d SPI $d OCLCO $d CDX $d COO $d NhCcYME $d UtOrBLW $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- $a n-us--- 050 00 $a HD8055.C75 $b F66 2015 050 00 $a HD8055.C75 $b F66 2015 082 00 $a 331.880975/0904 $2 23 084 $a REL053000 $a HIS036060 $a REL053000 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Fones-Wolf, Elizabeth A., $d 1954- $e author. 245 10 $a Struggle for the soul of the postwar South : $b white evangelical Protestants and Operation Dixie / $c Elizabeth A. Fones-Wolf and Ken Fones-Wolf. 264 1 $a Urbana : $b University of Illinois Press, $c [2015] 300 $a xiv, 264 pages ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a The working class in American history. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "This study provides new answers to one of the most perplexing questions facing historians of labor and of the South: why were workers so resistant to the efforts of unions and liberals to reform the region? Elizabeth and Ken Fones-Wolf add evangelical Protestantism to the narrative of how workers responded to organized labor's most ambitious effort to transform the U.S. South in the decades after World War II: the CIO's Operation Dixie (1946-53). The authors investigate how the Depression and World War II, and the economic restructuring that accompanied them, affected the religious culture of the South and the outlook of evangelical Protestants. Drawing on deep research in denominational archives and newspapers and in records of national church organizations, the CIO, and business organizations, they examine the religious backgrounds and outlooks of the individuals the CIO sent to the South and discuss how these messengers -- who represented denominational backgrounds quite different from those of their would-be constituents -- looked to southern ministers and congregants. They also use oral histories to consider how workers' religious beliefs guided their choices to join or reject the CIO's appeal. By making the sacred a major element in the story of struggle for southern economic justice and positioning class as a central aspect of southern religion, the Fones-Wolfs provide new and nuanced understandings of how southerners wrestled with the options available to them in this crucial period of change and possibility"-- $c Provided by publisher. 610 20 $a Congress of Industrial Organizations (U.S.) $x History. 650 0 $a Labor unions $x History. $z Southern States $x History. 650 0 $a Labor movement $x Christianity. $x Christianity. 650 0 $a Evangelicalism $z Southern States $x History. 650 0 $a Christian conservatism $z United States. 650 0 $a Social classes $z United States. 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628. 700 1 $a Fones-Wolf, Ken, $e author. 830 0 $a Working class in American history. 941 $a 1 952 $l OIAX792 $d 20160331011304.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=FF375FE4F70511E582760BA0DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search