Labor Evangelicals studies theologically conservative working class evangelicals in the United States who resist the common preconception that they eagerly embrace deregulation, unfettered markets, and globalized capital. Methodologically, this book studies evangelical workers at the grassroots level to discern the complexity of their perspectives about work, unions, class, and power. This book shows how white and African American evangelicals think about labor in working-class communities in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and Moncure, North Carolina.

Uses an ethnographic approach to study labor unions, work, and the economy Studies the relationship between evangelicals and labor unions in the contemporary era Written for scholars of both evangelical and labor studies

Autorentext

Ken Estey is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Brooklyn College, City University of New York, USA.

Klappentext

*Labor Evangelicals *studies theologically conservative working class evangelicals in the United States who resist the common preconception that they eagerly embrace deregulation, unfettered markets, and globalized capital. Methodologically, this book studies evangelical workers at the grassroots level to discern the complexity of their perspectives about work, unions, class, and power. This book shows how white and African American evangelicals think about labor in working-class communities in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and Moncure, North Carolina.

Ken Estey is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Brooklyn College, City University of New York, USA.

Inhalt

1: Evangelicals are Workers Too.- 2: Evangelicalism and Labor in the United States.- 3: Rust Belt Evangelicals in the Shadow of Bethlehem Steel.- 4: The Uneasy Conscience of Unionized Evangelicals.- 5: Evangelicals on Strike at Moncure Plywood.- 6: Atlas Shrugs Off Local 369 at Moncure Plywood.- 7: The Contributions of Labor Evangelicals.