Christian brethren, union brother : a study of the relationship between religious nonconformity and trade union leadership, in the life of the coal mining deputies' official, W.T. Miller (1880-1963)
This thesis explores, through a study of the life, work and times of WT Miller (1880-1963), the relationship between religious nonconformity and trade union leadership. It does this with with specific reference to two organisations with which Miller was involved during his life. One was the British protestant religious sect, the Churches of Christ, in the Wigan coalfield between the mid-nineteenth century and the Second World War. The other was the colliery deputies' trade union from its formation early In this century, through the inter-war period (when Miller became national President and Secretary), to the union's re-formation as the modern National Association of Colliery Overmen, Deputies, and Shotfirers, after coal nationalisation. The study attempts to understand the connection between Miller's religious ethic, developed within the Churches of Christ, and his trade union leadership style, as displayed In the colliery deputies' trade union between the wars. It draws on Max Weber's 119761 understanding of the 'elective affinity' between ascetic protestantism and this-wordly business entreprenuership, to analyse the relationship between a similar, but later form of religous sectarianism and labour movement
Ackers, Peter Brian Harry
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Christian brethren, union brother : a study of the relationship between religious nonconformity and trade union leadership, in the life of the coal mining deputies' official, W.T. Miller (1880-1963). This thesis explores, through a study of the life, work and times of WT Miller (1880-1963), the relationship between religious nonconformity and trade union leadership. It does this with with specific reference to two organisations with which Miller was involved during his life. One was the British protestant religious sect, the Churches of Christ, in the Wigan coalfield between the mid-nineteenth century and the Second World War. The other was the colliery deputies' trade union from its formation early In this century, through the inter-war period (when Miller became national President and Secretary), to the union's re-formation as the modern National Association of Colliery Overmen, Deputies, and Shotfirers, after coal nationalisation. The study attempts to understand the connection between Miller's religious ethic, developed within the Churches of Christ, and his trade union leadership style, as displayed In the colliery deputies' trade union between the wars. It draws on Max Weber's 119761 understanding of the 'elective affinity' between ascetic protestantism and this-wordly business entreprenuership, to analyse the relationship between a similar, but later form of religous sectarianism and labour movement
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