Before the Enemy is Within Our Walls: Catholic Workers in Cologne, 1885-1912

A Social, Cultural and Political History
Erscheinungsjahr 1999
ISBN: 978-0-391-04096-0
Verlag: Brill Academic Publishers

Buch, Englisch, Band 16, 342 Seiten, Gewicht: 600 g

Reihe: Studies in Central European Histories

The following study exacmines the social, cultural and political history of Catholic workers in the city of Cologne and its environs from 1885 to 1912. Specifically, it treats the methods employed by the Catholic Church to isolate its working class members from Marxist Social Democracy by enclosing them within a clerically constructed and controlled social-cultural miliue, explores the beliefs and behaviors inculcated in this confessional envrironment, and explains the causes of the Social Democratic Party's (SPD) conquest of Cologne in the 1912 Reichstag election.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chien Sun, Raymond

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Katholizismus, Römisch-Katholische Kirche
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Marxismus, Kommunismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Wirtschaftssoziologie, Arbeitssoziologie, Organisationssoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Tables
List of Abbreviations
Acknowledgements
Introduction

PART 1: THE CREATION OF THE CATHOLIC WORKERS’ MILIEU, 1885-1902
1. The Setting: Religious, Political and Economic Traditions in Cologne
2. “Before the Enemy is Within Our Walls”: Theoretical and Organizational Origins of the Catholic Workers’ Clubs"
3. The Catholic Workers’ Milieu in Cologne: Organizational Development
4. The Program of the Catholic Workers’ Clubs: Education, Sociability and Social Services
5. Problems with the Catholic Workers’ Clubs: Structural and Attitudinal Flaws

PART II: THE CRISIS OF CATHOLIC HEGEMONY, 1903-1912
6. Undermining the Foundations of Catholic Hegemony: Tariff Reform and the Reichstag Election of 1903
7. Regrouping: The Catholic Workers’ Milieu 1904-1912
8. “The Enemy Within the Walls”: The Reichstag Election of 1912

Epilogue and Conclusions
Index of Appendices
Appendices
Bibliography
Index