Synopsis
This timely volume offers key writings that identify and explain essential labor and economic issues from the perspectives of a variety of faith traditions, including Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, and Muslim.
Topics covered include: Crisis for U.S.Workers, Religion-Labor History,
What Our Religious Traditions Say about Work, Theology and the Ethics of Work, and The Religion-Labor Movement Today
Designed for educational use, whether in traditional courses or community outreach, this volume is an indispensable tool for those concerned with contemporary issues facing labor and the role religious traditions play.
With sidebars, graphs, illustrations, and suggestions for further reading, A Worker Justice Reader offers a wide range of data and detail for study, reflection, and action.
About the Author
Interfaith Worker Justice is a Chicago-based network of more than 70 interfaith groups that mobilize the religious community in the United States on issues and campaigns that will improve wages, benefits, and conditions, and give voice to workers. IWJ's founder and Executive Director, Kim Bobo, has been named one of the "50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World" by Utne Reader.
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