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Managers and Ministers: Instilling Christian Free Enterprise in the Postwar Workplace

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 April 2015

Elizabeth Fones-Wolf  and
Ken Fones-Wolf
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Abstract

This article examines the early industrial chaplain movement. In the midst of a postwar religious revival, companies, primarily in the South, hired Protestant ministers to care for their workers' spiritual needs. Many were motivated by both religious convictions and the desire to build a productive, loyal workforce. The opposition of unions and liberal Protestantism slowed the movement's growth, although over the last three decades thousands of employers have rediscovered the benefits of faith-based workplace programs. This article illuminates important postwar trends such as the persistence of paternalism and the importance of religion in managerial strategies.

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Business History Review , Volume 89 , Issue 1 , Spring 2015 , pp. 99 - 124
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Copyright © The President and Fellows of Harvard College 2015 

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3 With the exception of a short, suggestive piece by Chad Seales, which ends with a call for more research on industrial chaplaincy, the movement has received little attention from historians. It is mentioned briefly in works by Elizabeth Fones-Wolf and Darren Dochuck, and Sarah Hammond's dissertation examines the National Association of Evangelicals' effort to promote industrial chaplaincy immediately after World War II. Seales, Chad E., “Corporate Chaplaincy and the American Workplace,” Religion Compass 6, no. 3 (2012): 195–203CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Fones-Wolf, Elizabeth, Selling Free Enterprise: The Business Assault on Labor and Liberalism (Urbana, 1994), 224–25Google Scholar; Dochuk, Darren, From Bible Belt to Sunbelt: Plain-Folk Religion, Grassroots Politics, and the Rise of Evangelical Conservatism (New York, 2011)Google Scholar; Sarah Ruth Hammond, “‘God's Business Men’: Entrepreneurial Evangelicals in Depression and War” (PhD diss., Yale University, 2010); Clarence Woodbury, “Religion in Industry: ‘Not Only to Make a Living . . . but a Life,’” Nation's Business, June 1954, 74.

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