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Comparative History of Christian Workers' Organisations 1840-2000
From the late nineteenth century in continental Europe, and in the second half of the twentieth century also in Quebec, Latin America, Africa and to a much lesser extent Asia, Christian workers'... [Project]
Class and Other Identities
In recent years, much debate has taken place on the future and function of labour history. Among the issues debated was the position of class, and other identities of working class people, such as... [Publication]
Between Cross and Class
In the late nineteenth century in a number of continental European countries Christian associations of workers arose: Christian trade unions, workers' cooperatives, political leagues, workers' youth... [Publication]
Terrorist Attack on Bismarck
The German chancellor Bismarck is only slightly wounded in an attempt to murder him in Bad Kissingen on 13 July 1874. The offender belongs to the Catholic political wing. The man committed his crime... [Item of the Day]
Pain-Killers for 'Spirit Wrestlers'
Doukhobors – literally 'spirit wrestlers' - belonged to a Russian religious sect that was severely persecuted by the church and the state for their pacifist ideas at the end of the nineteenth century... [Item of the Day]
Catholic Labour Movement
The papal encyclical Rerum Novarum is delivered on May 15, 1891, and offers a prospect of a Catholic labour movement. Pope Leo XIII opposes Marxism as well as capitalism with the idea of a... [Item of the Day]