Ken Fones-Wolf
Biographic Data
| ID | 998707 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ken Fones-Wolf |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ken |
| FAMILY NAME | Fones-Wolf |
| SIGNATURE | FONES-WOLF K |
| AFFILIATIONS | West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Injury Impoverished: Workplace Accidents, Capitalism, and Law in the Progressive Era
Injury Impoverished is a timely book. Debates over workplace health and the value that capitalism places on human life have returned with a vengeance in the era of COVID-19. How the United States arrived at the place where society chose to compensate for on-the-job accidents using actuarial tables based on labor-market valuation rather than force employers to make work safer is a tragic story that reveals much about capitalism, inequality, and th…
Termites in the Temple: Fundamentalism and Anti-Liberal Politics in the Post-World War II South
From 1946 to 1950, East Tennessee was embroiled in a bitter campaign over the radio preacher and evangelist, J. Harold Smith. More than a curiosity, this confrontation helps us understand a much broader struggle that cut deeply through American society in the post-World War II era. It was a conflict that grew out of a conservative political effort to roll back the New Deal, the union-led regime of collective bargaining, and the tide of modernist …
The Business Turn in American Religious History
American religious historians have rediscovered capitalism, it seems, but are no longer trapped by the formulations of Max Weber. The Business Turn in American Religious History offers several chapters exploring older but nonetheless timely themes concerning Protestantism and business and contains chapters on Catholics, Mormons, Jews, Asian Indians, and American Indians, revealing how encompassing the business turn can be. Beginning with Robert E…
Matthew Pehl. The Making of Working-Class Religion
In the late 1960s, revolutionary black workers in Detroit, frustrated by the overwhelming rates of poverty and unemployment due in equal parts to the restructuring of the auto industry and systemic racism, turned on their former ally, the United Auto Workers (UAW). Chanting such slogans as “UAW Means You Ain’t White” and “Put a Halter on Walter,” they gave voice to their displeasure. Their hostility signaled a profound chasm in the old New Deal c…
Meet Joe Copper: Masculinity and Race on Montana’s World War II Home Front . By Matthew L. Basso
The copper mining and smelting communities of Montana were among the most vital war production centers but also bastions of white male independence. How did patriotic demands reshape masculinity? Deeply researched and engagingly written, Meet Joe Copper wrestles with this question and the continuities of particular gender identities. Contrary to the popular notion that “the greatest generation” obliterated the dominant Depression-era, blue-collar…
Struggle for the Soul of the Postwar South: White Evangelical Protestants and Operation Dixie
In 1946, the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) undertook Operation Dixie, an initiative to recruit industrial workers in the American South. This book explores the CIO's fraught encounter with the evangelical Protestantism and religious culture of southern whites. The book's nuanced look at working-class religion reveals how laborers across the surprisingly wide evangelical spectrum interpreted their lives through their faith. Factors li…
Managers and Ministers: Instilling Christian Free Enterprise in the Postwar Workplace
This article examines the early industrial chaplain movement. In the midst of a postwar religious revival, companies, primarily in the South, hired Protestant ministers to care for their workers' spiritual needs. Many were motivated by both religious convictions and the desire to build a productive, loyal workforce. The opposition of unions and liberal Protestantism slowed the movement's growth, although over the last three decades thousands of e…
Religion, Human Relations, and Union Avoidance in the 1950s: The Electrical Industry's Southern Strategy and Its Limits
Historians have become increasingly aware of how religion dovetailed with businessmen's goals of promoting free-enterprise ideologies and creating an anti-statist and anti-union political culture. But business expected more from religion; many employers believed that emphasizing spirituality could help them win community support and worker loyalty and avoid unions. When the electrical manufacturing industry began to move South after World War II,…
Corporate Wasteland: The Landscape and Memory of Deindustrialization
Cold War Americanism: Business, Pageantry, and Antiunionism in Weirton, West Virginia
After World War II, Weirton Steel remained a critical barrier to the unionization of the steel industry. Weirton kept unions at bay through a plan of high wages, welfare, and company unionism, which it combined with an authoritarian style of management. Forbidden from using intimidation by the federal courts, Weirton substituted a celebration of Americanism that associated freedom with limited government and an absence of unionism. Foreseeing a u…
Immigrants, Labor and Capital in a Transnational Context: Belgian Glass Workers in America, 1880-1925
Research Article| January 01 2002 Immigrants, Labor and Capital in a Transnational Context: Belgian Glass Workers in America, 1880-1925 Ken Fones-Wolf Ken Fones-Wolf Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2002) 21 (2): 59–80. https://doi.org/10.2307/27502813 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Ken Fones-Wolf; Immigrants, Labor and…
Lending a Hand to Labor: James Myers and the Federal Council of Churches, 1926-1947
On 31 September 1929, James Myers, the industrial secretary of the Federal Council of Churches (FCC), arrived in Marion, North Carolina, to investigate the causes for the continuing industrial unrest that had swept across the southern textile industry since the spring. Shortly after Myers's arrival, as the textile workers attempted to picket the plant, sheriff's deputies fired into the crowd, killing six strikers and wounding twenty-five others. …
Conversion at Bethlehem: Religion and Union Building in Steel, 1930–42
(1998). Conversion at Bethlehem: Religion and Union Building in Steel, 1930–42. Labor History: Vol. 39, No. 4, pp. 381-395
Labor on the March
From Craft to Industrial Unionism in the Window-Glass Industry: Clarksburg, West Virginia, 1900–1937
Trade Unions and Community: The German Working Class in New York City, 1870-1900
Journal Article Trade Unions and Community: The German Working Class in New York City, 1870–1900. By Dorothee Schneider. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994. xx, 273 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-252-02057-X.) Get access Ken Fones-Wolf Ken Fones-Wolf West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 2, September 1995, Pages 758–75…
Cities and Churches: An International Bibliography
Rank-and-file rebellions and AFL interference in the affairs of national unions: The Gompers era
(1994). Rank-and-file rebellions and AFL interference in the affairs of national unions: The Gompers era. Labor History: Vol. 35, No. 2, pp. 237-259
The German-American Radical Press: The Shaping of a Left Political Culture, 1850-1940
Journal Article The German-American Radical Press: The Shaping of a Left Political Culture, 1830–1940. Ed. by Elliott Shore, Ken Fones-Wolf, and James P. Danky. Urbana: University of Illinois Press and The Spirit of 1848: German Immigrants, Labor Conflict, and the Coming of the Civil War. By Bruce Levine. Urbana: University of Illinois Press Get access J. H. M. Laslett J. H. M. Laslett University of California, Los Angeles, California Search for …
Mobility and Mill Towns: Moving Up or Moving Out
United States
As Pennsylvania Goes, so Goes the American Working Class
Trade Union Gospel: Christianity and Labor in Industrial Philadelphia, 1865-1915
Labor history sources at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst
William Green: Biography of a Labor Leader
Corporate Wasteland: The Landscape and Memory of Deindustrialization
Immigrants, Labor and Capital in a Transnational Context: Belgian Glass Workers in America, 1880-1925
Research Article| January 01 2002 Immigrants, Labor and Capital in a Transnational Context: Belgian Glass Workers in America, 1880-1925 Ken Fones-Wolf Ken Fones-Wolf Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2002) 21 (2): 59–80. https://doi.org/10.2307/27502813 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Ken Fones-Wolf; Immigrants, Labor and…
The Business Turn in American Religious History
American religious historians have rediscovered capitalism, it seems, but are no longer trapped by the formulations of Max Weber. The Business Turn in American Religious History offers several chapters exploring older but nonetheless timely themes concerning Protestantism and business and contains chapters on Catholics, Mormons, Jews, Asian Indians, and American Indians, revealing how encompassing the business turn can be. Beginning with Robert E…
The German-American Radical Press: The Shaping of a Left Political Culture, 1850-1940
Journal Article The German-American Radical Press: The Shaping of a Left Political Culture, 1830–1940. Ed. by Elliott Shore, Ken Fones-Wolf, and James P. Danky. Urbana: University of Illinois Press and The Spirit of 1848: German Immigrants, Labor Conflict, and the Coming of the Civil War. By Bruce Levine. Urbana: University of Illinois Press Get access J. H. M. Laslett J. H. M. Laslett University of California, Los Angeles, California Search for …
Cold War Americanism: Business, Pageantry, and Antiunionism in Weirton, West Virginia
After World War II, Weirton Steel remained a critical barrier to the unionization of the steel industry. Weirton kept unions at bay through a plan of high wages, welfare, and company unionism, which it combined with an authoritarian style of management. Forbidden from using intimidation by the federal courts, Weirton substituted a celebration of Americanism that associated freedom with limited government and an absence of unionism. Foreseeing a u…
Lending a Hand to Labor: James Myers and the Federal Council of Churches, 1926-1947
On 31 September 1929, James Myers, the industrial secretary of the Federal Council of Churches (FCC), arrived in Marion, North Carolina, to investigate the causes for the continuing industrial unrest that had swept across the southern textile industry since the spring. Shortly after Myers's arrival, as the textile workers attempted to picket the plant, sheriff's deputies fired into the crowd, killing six strikers and wounding twenty-five others. …
Conversion at Bethlehem: Religion and Union Building in Steel, 1930–42
(1998). Conversion at Bethlehem: Religion and Union Building in Steel, 1930–42. Labor History: Vol. 39, No. 4, pp. 381-395
From Craft to Industrial Unionism in the Window-Glass Industry: Clarksburg, West Virginia, 1900–1937
Religion and Trade Union Politics in the United States, 1880–1920
More than three decades have passed since Marc Karson analyzed the Catholic church's critical role in impeding the growth of socialism in the American labor movement. He was not the first to make the argument; Progressive Era socialists were acutely aware of Catholics' outspoken opposition, and David Saposs outlined Karson's arguments as early as 1933. However, the evidence marshaled by Karson, first in a 1951 article and later in American Labor …
William Green: Biography of a Labor Leader
Labor history sources at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst
United States
As Pennsylvania Goes, so Goes the American Working Class
Trade Union Gospel: Christianity and Labor in Industrial Philadelphia, 1865-1915
Mobility and Mill Towns: Moving Up or Moving Out
The German-American Radical Press: The Shaping of a Left Political Culture, 1850-1940
Journal Article The German-American Radical Press: The Shaping of a Left Political Culture, 1830–1940. Ed. by Elliott Shore, Ken Fones-Wolf, and James P. Danky. Urbana: University of Illinois Press and The Spirit of 1848: German Immigrants, Labor Conflict, and the Coming of the Civil War. By Bruce Levine. Urbana: University of Illinois Press Get access J. H. M. Laslett J. H. M. Laslett University of California, Los Angeles, California Search for …
Rank-and-file rebellions and AFL interference in the affairs of national unions: The Gompers era
(1994). Rank-and-file rebellions and AFL interference in the affairs of national unions: The Gompers era. Labor History: Vol. 35, No. 2, pp. 237-259
From Craft to Industrial Unionism in the Window-Glass Industry: Clarksburg, West Virginia, 1900–1937
Trade Unions and Community: The German Working Class in New York City, 1870-1900
Journal Article Trade Unions and Community: The German Working Class in New York City, 1870–1900. By Dorothee Schneider. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994. xx, 273 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-252-02057-X.) Get access Ken Fones-Wolf Ken Fones-Wolf West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 2, September 1995, Pages 758–75…
Cities and Churches: An International Bibliography
Labor on the March
Conversion at Bethlehem: Religion and Union Building in Steel, 1930–42
(1998). Conversion at Bethlehem: Religion and Union Building in Steel, 1930–42. Labor History: Vol. 39, No. 4, pp. 381-395
Lending a Hand to Labor: James Myers and the Federal Council of Churches, 1926-1947
On 31 September 1929, James Myers, the industrial secretary of the Federal Council of Churches (FCC), arrived in Marion, North Carolina, to investigate the causes for the continuing industrial unrest that had swept across the southern textile industry since the spring. Shortly after Myers's arrival, as the textile workers attempted to picket the plant, sheriff's deputies fired into the crowd, killing six strikers and wounding twenty-five others. …
Immigrants, Labor and Capital in a Transnational Context: Belgian Glass Workers in America, 1880-1925
Research Article| January 01 2002 Immigrants, Labor and Capital in a Transnational Context: Belgian Glass Workers in America, 1880-1925 Ken Fones-Wolf Ken Fones-Wolf Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2002) 21 (2): 59–80. https://doi.org/10.2307/27502813 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Ken Fones-Wolf; Immigrants, Labor and…
Cold War Americanism: Business, Pageantry, and Antiunionism in Weirton, West Virginia
After World War II, Weirton Steel remained a critical barrier to the unionization of the steel industry. Weirton kept unions at bay through a plan of high wages, welfare, and company unionism, which it combined with an authoritarian style of management. Forbidden from using intimidation by the federal courts, Weirton substituted a celebration of Americanism that associated freedom with limited government and an absence of unionism. Foreseeing a u…
Corporate Wasteland: The Landscape and Memory of Deindustrialization
Religion, Human Relations, and Union Avoidance in the 1950s: The Electrical Industry's Southern Strategy and Its Limits
Historians have become increasingly aware of how religion dovetailed with businessmen's goals of promoting free-enterprise ideologies and creating an anti-statist and anti-union political culture. But business expected more from religion; many employers believed that emphasizing spirituality could help them win community support and worker loyalty and avoid unions. When the electrical manufacturing industry began to move South after World War II,…
Struggle for the Soul of the Postwar South: White Evangelical Protestants and Operation Dixie
In 1946, the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) undertook Operation Dixie, an initiative to recruit industrial workers in the American South. This book explores the CIO's fraught encounter with the evangelical Protestantism and religious culture of southern whites. The book's nuanced look at working-class religion reveals how laborers across the surprisingly wide evangelical spectrum interpreted their lives through their faith. Factors li…
Managers and Ministers: Instilling Christian Free Enterprise in the Postwar Workplace
This article examines the early industrial chaplain movement. In the midst of a postwar religious revival, companies, primarily in the South, hired Protestant ministers to care for their workers' spiritual needs. Many were motivated by both religious convictions and the desire to build a productive, loyal workforce. The opposition of unions and liberal Protestantism slowed the movement's growth, although over the last three decades thousands of e…
Meet Joe Copper: Masculinity and Race on Montana’s World War II Home Front . By Matthew L. Basso
The copper mining and smelting communities of Montana were among the most vital war production centers but also bastions of white male independence. How did patriotic demands reshape masculinity? Deeply researched and engagingly written, Meet Joe Copper wrestles with this question and the continuities of particular gender identities. Contrary to the popular notion that “the greatest generation” obliterated the dominant Depression-era, blue-collar…
Matthew Pehl. The Making of Working-Class Religion
In the late 1960s, revolutionary black workers in Detroit, frustrated by the overwhelming rates of poverty and unemployment due in equal parts to the restructuring of the auto industry and systemic racism, turned on their former ally, the United Auto Workers (UAW). Chanting such slogans as “UAW Means You Ain’t White” and “Put a Halter on Walter,” they gave voice to their displeasure. Their hostility signaled a profound chasm in the old New Deal c…
Termites in the Temple: Fundamentalism and Anti-Liberal Politics in the Post-World War II South
From 1946 to 1950, East Tennessee was embroiled in a bitter campaign over the radio preacher and evangelist, J. Harold Smith. More than a curiosity, this confrontation helps us understand a much broader struggle that cut deeply through American society in the post-World War II era. It was a conflict that grew out of a conservative political effort to roll back the New Deal, the union-led regime of collective bargaining, and the tide of modernist …
The Business Turn in American Religious History
American religious historians have rediscovered capitalism, it seems, but are no longer trapped by the formulations of Max Weber. The Business Turn in American Religious History offers several chapters exploring older but nonetheless timely themes concerning Protestantism and business and contains chapters on Catholics, Mormons, Jews, Asian Indians, and American Indians, revealing how encompassing the business turn can be. Beginning with Robert E…
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