The labor issue in the USA in the first half of the 20th century. The contribution of the Catholic Church to its solution

Graban, Marcin

dc.contributor.author	Graban, Marcin
dc.date.accessioned	2019-02-26T13:18:20Z
dc.date.available	2019-02-26T13:18:20Z
dc.date.issued	2017
dc.identifier.issn	1899-2226
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/11089/26891
dc.description.abstract	The stance of the Catholic Church in the United States of America on the problems related to workers’ wages is an interesting issue from the point of view of the ethics of economic life and the development of Catholic social thought. The interpretation of the main Catholic social ideas contained in Leo XIII’s encyclical letter Rerum novarum was made by Father John Augustine Ryan (1896–1945), who soon became a major proponent of the idea that a good economic policy can only result from good ethics. In the history of the United States of America, the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries was a time of the development of labor unions, associations and workers’ organizations as well as the consolidation of efforts to achieve equitable remuneration (a living wage) and regulate working conditions. It was also a time of struggling with the ideas of socialism and nationalism. The Catholic Church played a significant role in the discourse on these issues, including the influence of John A. Ryan. His efforts led to one of the most important interpretations of economic life: The Program of Social Reconstruction (1919), and some of its postulates can be found in the New Deal legislation.	en_GB
dc.description.sponsorship	Publication of English-language versions of the volumes of the "Annales. Ethics in Economic Life" financed through contract no. 501/1/P-DUN/2017 from the funds of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education devoted to the promotion of scholarship.	en_GB
dc.language.iso	en	en_GB
dc.publisher	Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego	en_GB
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Annales. Ethics in Economic Life;7
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dc.subject	John. A. Ryan	en_GB
dc.subject	Catholic social thought in the USA	en_GB
dc.subject	wages	en_GB
dc.subject	labor conditions	en_GB
dc.title	The labor issue in the USA in the first half of the 20th century. The contribution of the Catholic Church to its solution	en_GB
dc.type	Article	en_GB
dc.page.number	131-148
dc.contributor.authorAffiliation	Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Faculty of Historical Studies, Institute of History
dc.identifier.eissn	2353-4869
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dc.contributor.authorEmail	mgraban@amu.edu.pl
dc.identifier.doi	10.18778/1899-2226.20.7.10
dc.relation.volume	20	en_GB
dc.subject.jel	B31
dc.subject.jel	J31

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