Cover page; Halftitle page; Title page; Copyright page; Title page; Copyright page; CONTENTS; PREFACE; PROLOGUE; CHAPTER I JOHN WHEATLEY: YOUTH IN A LANARKSHIRE MINING VILLAGE; CHAPTER II JOHN WHEATLEY, THE GLASGOW OBSERVER, AND THE ROMAN CATHOLIC MILIEU; CHAPTER III THE FOUNDING OF THE CATHOLIC SOCIALIST SOCIETY, 1906-1907; CHAPTER IV THE CATHOLIC SOCIALIST DEBATE, 1907; CHAPTER V THE CATHOLIC SOCIALIST SOCIETY: CONTROVERSY AND GROWTH, 1907-1910; CHAPTER VI CATHOLIC SOCIALISM AND POLITICS, WHEATLEY'S EARLY POLITICAL CAREER, 1910-1914; EPILOGUE; APPENDIX A AN OPEN LETTER TO MY FELLOW WORKERS
APPENDIX B ""OUTSIDE THE CHAPEL DOORSELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
Summary
First published in 1987. This examination of the career of John Wheatley indicates the way in which one Irishman - reared among Liberal and Radical coal miners and taught by Roman Catholic priests and nationalist leaders to regard obedience to the Catholic Church and promotion of Home Rule as the vital interests for Irish Catholics - became a Socialist and adapted his Radical political views and devotional Roman Catholic convictions to a Parliamentary and Catholic Socialism. This title will be of interest to scholars and students of British and Labour history
