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Capitalists and Christians : business leaders and the churches in Britain, 1900-1960

Title: Capitalists and Christians : business leaders and the churches in Britain, 1900-1960 / David J. Jeremy.
Author: Jeremy, David J.
Publication: Oxford : Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1990.

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Description

xvii, 491 pages : portrait; 24 cm

Summary

This is a study of the relationship between capitalism and Christianity in twentieth-century Britain. Jeremy examines the collective biographies of three business leaders in order to answer the questions: How did the churches shape the thinking of future business leaders? What impact did Christianity have on big business? How has the participation of business people in religious life affected the major Protestant denominations? Drawing on a wide range of sources, including newspapers and journals, unpublished records, and interviews, Jeremy has produced a thought-provoking analysis of a relationship that could be both tense and fruitful. His insights into the private faith and business ethics of leading entrepreneurs and businessmen are underpinned by intensive quantitative analysis, making this an invaluable study of the interactions between two vital strands in twentieth-century British history.

Subject

Genre/Form

Church history.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [443]-462)

Contents

Abbreviations -- Introduction: Business leaders and churches: issues and approaches -- Part I. Contexts: Business structures, religious structures and business elites 1900-1960 -- Part II. Formations: Church views of business 1900-1960 -- Christian influence in the formation of business values, skills, and networks in British business elites 1900-1960 -- Part III. Advance or retreat? Christians in big business prologue. The numbers involved -- The industrial sectors preferred -- Christians in big business leadership before 1914 -- Christians in big business leadership between the wars -- Churchmen in big business leadership during the 1940s and 1950s -- Part IV. Mammon in the Temple: commercial men in the churches -- Prologue; Businessmen in the church of England 1900-1960 -- The Methodist experience 1900-1960 -- Nonconformists and Celts 1900-1960 -- Interdenominational scenes 1900-1960 -- Conclusion -- Appendix: The hundred largest companies in 1907, 1935, and 1955 -- Sources -- Index.

ISBN

0198201214
9780198201212

LCCN

90035341

OCLC

ocm21406783
21406783
SCSB-1932281

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library