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Jul 18, 2017 · Consequently, social gospel leaders supported legislation for an eight-hour work day, the abolition of child labor and government regulation of business monopolies. While the social...
- Christopher H. Evans
Labour reforms—including the abolition of child labour, a shorter workweek, a living wage, and factory regulation—constituted the Social Gospel’s most prominent concerns. During the 1930s many of these ideals were realized through the rise of organized labour and the legislation of the New Deal by U.S. Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt .
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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Important concerns of the Social Gospel movement were labor reforms such as abolishing child labor and regulating the hours of work by mothers. By 1920, they were crusading against the 12-hour day for workers at U.S. Steel .
Passed first by the Methodists in 1907, the Social Creed called for many measures to alleviate the conditions created by the new industrial workplace, for instance, the alleviation of Sunday working hours, the elimination of child labor, and the creation of disability insurance for workers injured in factories.
By the 1920s, many Social Gospel leaders had distanced themselves from the organized working classes. They either accepted new arrangements for harmonizing the interests of labor and capital or took their left-leaning political ideals underground.
- Janine Giordano Drake
- 2017
The Social Gospel as a Grassroots Movement. Wendy J. Deichmann. grassroots movement of laity and clergy in the aftermath of the Civil The social gospel War. During this era, movement American society faced in extreme the levels United of social States began as a faith-based, instability resulting not only from wartime trauma and loss, but also.
May 15, 2021 · A Moral Monday protest led by a preacher, Rev. William Barber. AP Photo/Martha WaggonerThroughout American history, religion has played a significant role in promoting social reform. From the ...
