A worker justice reader
Subtitle: essential writings on religion and labor
By: provided by Interfaith Worker Justice ; compiled by Joy Heine, project director.
Contributors: Heine, Joy.; Interfaith Worker Justice (Organization)
Publisher: Orbis Books
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Maryknoll, N.Y
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781570758751
Subjects: Work -- Religious aspects; Labor -- Religious aspects; Labor movement -- Religious aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Kim Bobo; title: Crisis for U.S. workers; title: The state of working America : executive summary / Economic Policy Institute; title: Why unions matter / IWJ; title: Globalization and its impact on labor / Pamela Brubaker; title: U.S. demand for immigrant labor and its impact / Ana Bedard; title: Religion-labor history; title: Historic highlights of the religion-labor movement / IWJ; title: Negro labor and the church / A. Philip Randolph; title: Religion and labor : then and now / George G. Higgins; title: At work in the vineyard : the Jesuit labor apostolate / Edward F. Boyle; title: No shvitz : your one-stop guide to fighting sweatshops / Progressive Jewish Alliance; title: Charles Stelzle and the workingmen's department / Richard Poethig; title: What our religious traditions say about work; title: The Christian vision of economic life / U.S.Conference of Catholic Bishops; title: Economic justice statements / Unitarian Universalist Association; title: Resolution on workers' rights in the United Sates / Union of Reform Judaism; title: Sufficient sustainable livelihood for all / Evangelical Lutheran Church in America; title: Ethical guidelines for labor relations for United Church of Christ organizations and related organizations / United Church of Christ; title: Covenanting for justice in the economy and the earth / World Alliance of Reformed Churches; title: The economic community / United Methodist Church; title: Labor statements  / Presbyterian Church U.S.A.; title: The Qur'an and worker justice / IWJ; title: Theology and ethics of work - God and work / M. Douglas Meeks; title: Whose work ethic? : a womanist reading of a work ethic from the Bible to the United Sates / Joan Martin; title: And demand justice : a Jewish response to the business of poverty / Aryeh Cohen; title: The living wage : a Jewish approach / Jill Jacobs; title: Distributors of justice : a case for a just wage / Michael Naughton; title: The religion-labor movement today; title: Religion-labor partnerships : new directions, new opportunities / Kim Bobo; title: Struggling for justice, sustained by faith : a hotel worker's words / Cleopatria Kyles; title: Faith at work in Miami / C.J. Hawking; title: A new alliance between religion and labor / Robert Horwitz; title: The church, the union and the Trinity / Darren Cushman Wood; title: Future religious leaders live their theology! / Joy Heine.