Redeeming Time : Protestantism and Chicago's Eight-Hour Movement, 1866-1912.

Cover -- Title page -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Protestantism and Labor Reform Movements -- 1. A City of Industrial and Religious Extremes -- 2. Opening Eight-Hour Protests and the 1867 Eight-Hour Law -- 3. Eight Hours and the Financial Crisis of 1873 -- 4. Marching to Haymarket and the 1886 Eight-Hour Campaign -- 5. A "New Consciousness" for Contructing a Morality of Leisure -- 6. Shifting Eight-Hour Reform from Consciousness to Creed in the Twentieth Century -- Conclusion: Religion and the Trajectory of Labor Reform Movements -- Notes -- References -- Index.

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