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arbitration, publicity and statistical work for trade unions." The Union eventually was forced to capitulate. In an October 4, 1924 letter to his family Gregg explained his reasons for leaving the USA to take up residence in India. He indicated that over the previous decade he had worked in industry, government, and labor unions opposing strikes, running and settling strikes. This unique experience led him to conclude that government and industrialism were based on violence and that labor unions were ineffective as they worked within this framework and could not change it. He thought that there might be another approach to creating a humane social system in work of Gandhi in India.
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strike, publishing a 1919 law article. He then obtained a position at the Railway Department Employees Union. It involved traveling in support of its 400,000 workers during a time of strikes and labor disputes. These seven years in industrial relations he described as "investigation, conciliation,
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of Boston in the pioneering consulting firm of Valentine, Tead and Gregg who billed themselves as industrial counselors until Valentine's untimely death in November 1916. In 1916 he was employed in labor management by a private firm in Chicago. From 1917 to 1921 in Washington, D.C., at the
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Gregg provided some Gandhi background. He also aided King with scheduling and contacts when he and his wife visited in India in 1959. Gregg also took part in "nonviolent training sessions" for Black civil rights workers. King after the bus boycott listed his top five books: Gandhi's
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King wrote to Gregg, "I don't know when I have read anything... that has given the idea of non-violence a more realistic and depthful interpretation." Gregg was "thrilled by the revival of Gandhi's method in Montgomery." For King's 1958 book
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Labor's great war: the struggle for industrial democracy and the origins of modern American labor relations, 1912 - 1921
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Kosek, Joseph Kip (March 2005). "Richard Gregg, Mohandas Gandhi, and the Strategy of Nonviolence".
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Radical Pacifism: The War Resisters League and Gandhian Nonviolence in America, 1915–1963
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in 1911, Gregg worked at several law firms in Boston. He joined Robert G. Valentine and
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He sailed to India on January 1, 1925 for the study of Indian culture and to seek out
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Civil Disobedience: An Encyclopedic History of Dissidence in the United States
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Disillusioned, he worked as a farmhand and took courses in agriculture at the
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Also in 1956 Gregg began correspondence with Dr. King, which was during the
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Richard Gregg materials in the South Asian American Digital Archive (SAADA)
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Acts of Conscience: Christian Nonviolence and Modern American Democracy
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Tully (2018), author of 66 works (xvii), Gregg bibliography (xvii-xx).
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said to be "the first American to develop a substantial theory of
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The Power of Non-Violence. The enduring legacy of Richard Gregg
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The Psychology and Strategy of Gandhi's Non-violent Resistance
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Kosek (March 2005), "Richard Gregg", p.1318 (the five books).
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Pacifist Program in Time of War, Threatened War or Fascism
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whom Gregg had met in 1925 at Gandhi's Sabarmati Ashram.
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Pacifism in Britain, 1914–1945: The Defining of a Faith
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Quoted in Kosek (2009), 307:Martin Luther King, Jr: The Making of a Mind 59: 840: 826: 666: 583:Letter of King to Gregg, May 1, 1956, in 383:, Syracuse University Press, 2003, p. 47. 183: 613:Tully (2018), pp. xiv-xv, xxviii, xxxii. 408: 338: 336: 1540: 148:In the 1940s Gregg became involved in 143: 85: 43:, the pacifist and socialist reformer 1329:Anekdote zur Senkung der Arbeitsmoral 821: 552:, Columbia University Press. pp. 224. 433: 342: 102:replied, inviting him to stay at the 794:University of Pennsylvania Libraries 404: 402: 333: 31:, and so influenced the thinking of 798: 13: 732: 14: 1609: 1593:American sustainability advocates 847: 771: 585:Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr. 409:McCartin, Joseph Anthony (1997). 399: 799:Fox, Richard G. (Jan–Feb 1998). 476:(Philadelphia: Lippincott 1934). 54: 708: 699: 687: 660: 651: 638: 629: 616: 607: 594: 577: 564: 555: 542: 533: 517: 492: 346:The Journal of American History 233: 1598:War Resisters League activists 1573:American nonviolence advocates 667:Snodgrass, Mary Ellen (2015). 479: 466: 436:"The National War Labor Board" 427: 386: 373: 312: 309:. Orbis Books. pp. 146-7, 149. 299: 1: 1350:The Moon and the Sledgehammer 790:Richard Bartlett Gregg papers 754:"Voluntary Simplicity" (1936) 293: 1588:American social philosophers 673:. Routledge. pp. 81–2. 260:(1930). In a 1939 pamphlet, 238:His most widely-known book, 176:), a school associated with 117:later became an icon of the 27:" based on the teachings of 19:(1885–1974) was an American 7: 271:An influential 1936 essay, 166:Gandhigram Rural University 10: 1614: 1563:American spiritual writers 561:Tully (2018), pp. x1i-xiv. 548:Kosek, Joseph Kip. (2009) 434:Gregg, Richard B. (1919). 320:Complete Essays, 1936–1938 288:A Compass for Civilization 1568:Harvard Law School alumni 1387: 1320: 1269: 1163: 1107: 1099:Twelve Tribes communities 1006: 855: 745:with King's foreword, at 646:The Power of Non-Violence 474:The Power of Non-Violence 324:The Power of Non-Violence 281:A Preparation for Science 240:The Power of Non-Violence 194:The Power of Non-Violence 60:Law & labor relations 741:The Power of Nonviolence 716:The Self beyond Yourself 572:The Power of Nonviolence 487:The Power of Nonviolence 305:Ansbro, John J. (1982). 214:'s biography of Gandhi, 39:, civil-rights theorist 1583:Simple living advocates 1089:Testimony of simplicity 1007:Religious and spiritual 968:Subsistence agriculture 963:Slow movement (culture) 694:Visva-Bharati Quarterly 392:Ceadel, Martin (1980). 92:University of Wisconsin 1420:Appropriate technology 978:Sustainable sanitation 923:Low-impact development 504:Richard Bartlett Gregg 268:in the United States. 190:Montgomery bus boycott 184:Martin Luther King Jr. 139:Martin Luther King Jr. 64:After graduating from 33:Martin Luther King Jr. 17:Richard Bartlett Gregg 1336:Escape from Affluenza 913:Intentional community 258:Gandhiji's Satyagraha 200:Stride Toward Freedom 45:Jessie Wallace Hughan 25:nonviolent resistance 1460:Front Porch Republic 1450:Ecological footprint 1270:Modern-day adherents 763:John Wooding (2020) 528:Raising up a Prophet 277:voluntary simplicity 220:"civil disobedience" 1527:Work–life interface 1410:Anarcho-primitivism 1251:Henry David Thoreau 1135:Open Source Ecology 788:Finding aid to the 780:at Richardgregg.org 760:(Sept. 1974). 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Index

social philosopher
nonviolent resistance
Mahatma Gandhi
Martin Luther King Jr.
Aldous Huxley
Bayard Rustin
Jessie Wallace Hughan
Peace Pledge Union
Harvard Law
Ordway Tead
NWLB
Bethlehem Steel
University of Wisconsin
Madison
C. F. Andrews
Sabarmati Ashram
Gandhi
spinning wheel
Swadeshi movement
Samuel Evans Stokes
Simla
W. E. B. Du Bois
Satyagraha
Martin Luther King Jr.
ecology
organic farming
Helen Nearing
Scott Nearing
Gandhigram Rural University
Tamil Nadu

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