The Remaking of the Catholic Working Class: Detroit, 1919–1945

This essay examines the response of Catholics—both the institutional church and blue-collar laity—to the turmoil of the late 1930s and the rise of the United Automobile Workers in Detroit. It critiques an influential line of scholarship that holds that the ethnic working class was effectively secula...

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Main Author: Pehl, Matthew (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Cambridge University Press [2009]
In: Religion and American culture
Year: 2009, Volume: 19, Issue: 1, Pages: 37-67
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