John S. McCormick

is a historian at the Utah State Historical Society.

Mormonism and Labor | J. Kenneth Davies, Deseret’s Sons of Toil, A History of the Worker Movements of Territorial Utah, 1852–1896

J. Kenneth Davies, a long-time student of Utah labor history, has been interested in the relationship between the labor movement in Utah and the Mormon Church. Deseret’s Sons of Toil is intended to be a…

Socialist Saints: Mormons and the Socialist Party in Utah, 1900-20

Articles/Essays – Volume 18, No. 1

In the early years of this century,” observed David A. Shannon, “the Socialist Party of America was a young and virile organization that could not escape notice. Far stronger than any contemporary party on the left,…