The Pew and the Picket LineThe Pew and the Picket Line collects works from a new generation of scholars working at the nexus where religious history and working class history converge. Focusing on Christianity and its unique purchase in America, the contributors use in depth local histories to illustrate how Americans male and female, rural and urban, and from a range of ethnic backgrounds dwelt in a space between the church and the shop floor. Their vivid essays show