EPISODE · Oct 17, 2019 · 27 MIN
Labor Day, Religion and American Prosperity
from The Everyday Scholar
American Public University faculty member Robert King and Dr. Bjorn Mercer discuss Labor Day, religion, and American prosperity. Robert King goes over the 1891 Catholic papal encyclical Rerum Novarum by Pope Leo XIII, the Pullman Railroad Strike of 1894, and how ethnic classifications were used to manipulate, control, divide, and ultimately exploit workers at Pullman. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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