Making men, making class : the YMCA and workingmen, 1877-1920 /

Making men, making class : the YMCA and workingmen, 1877-1920 / Thomas Winter.

"During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the United States transformed from an essentially agrarian society into an urban, industrialized economy. In Making Men, Making Class, Thomas Winter explores the impact of these profound changes on constructions of manhood, using the YM...

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Main Author: Winter, Thomas, 1961-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2002]
Subjects:
YMCA of the USA. > Railroad Department > History.
YMCA of the USA. > Industrial Department > History.
Middle class men > United States > History > 20th century.
Blue collar workers > United States > History > 19th century.
Masculinity > Religious aspects > Christianity > History of doctrines > 19th century.
Blue collar workers > United States > History > 20th century.
Masculinity > Religious aspects > Christianity > History of doctrines > 20th century.
Masculinities.
Gender expression.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. The YMCA, Gender, Class, and Social Change, 1877-1920: An Introduction
  • 2. "A Zeal for Religious Work and an Open Door of Opportunity": YMCA Secretaries and Nineteenth-Century Ideals of Manhood
  • 3. "We Have Only to Step in and Occupy the Land": The YMCA, Labor Conflict, and the Rise of Welfare Capitalism
  • 4. "To Aid in the Upbuilding of Character": The YMCA, Welfare Capitalism, and a Language of Manhood
  • 5. "A Most Effective Ally in the Work of Labor Advancement": Workingmen and the YMCA
  • 6. "None of Your Milk-and-Water Sops, Flabby-Handed and Mealy-Mouthed, for Dealing with Such Men": The YMCA, the Secretaryship, and Professionalization
  • 7. Personality, Character, and Self-Expression: The YMCA and a Language of Manhood and Class.

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