| Book Review | Indiana Magazine of History, 100.3

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Making Men, Making Class The YMCA and Workingmen, 1877–1920

By Thomas Winter

(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002. Pp. xi, 208. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Clothbound, $40.00; paperbound, $17.00.)


The cover of Making Men, Making Class features a picture of a shop meeting of rugged male factory workers, three women (clerks?), and a child, all of them listening to the message of two well-dressed evangelists. Interestingly, for a YMCA publicity photo, the image is ambiguous. Its focus is on the female evangelist who seems to be speaking at that moment. Some, including the women, sit attentively. Yet several of the male workers have already shifted their gaze from the speakers; above them, a stern-looking man in a suit appears to be watching the crowd more than the speakers. What is the message being presented by the evangelists? Toward whom is it aimed? For whom was the gathering called?	1
For a half century, beginning with the railroad strikes of 1877, YMCAs held thousands of factory gatherings for industrial workers, suggesting an agenda much more central to the emergence of corporate capitalism than is typically assumed. It is Thomas Winter's goal to examine the organization's messages and to recapture its importance in definingclass gender in modern America.	. . .

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