Dialectic of solidarity : labor, antisemitism, and the Frankfurt School / by Mark P. Worrell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Worrell, Mark P.

Series:

Studies in critical social sciences ; v. 11.

Studies in critical social sciences, 1573-4234 ; v. 11

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Working class--United States--Attitudes.

Working class.

Antisemitism--United States.

Antisemitism.

Frankfurt school of sociology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (366 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

During World War II it appeared that American workers in uniform had all that was required to defend democracy on the battlefields yet, on the domestic front, the working class, as it turned out, was ideologically inconsistent when it came to democracy. Could battles against tyranny be won abroad only to lose the war back home? This was the question the Institute of Social Research (the famous “Frankfurt School”) asked in 1944 when it embarked upon an important study of the American working class. Dialectic of Solidarity draws upon unpublished research reports of the Frankfurt School and represents a unique and multidimensional view of the political imagination of the wartime American worker and the role of antisemitism as the 'spearhead of fascism.'

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Mark P. Worrell

Introduction / Mark P. Worrell

Chapter One. Politics, labor, and the Frankfurt School in America / Mark P. Worrell

Chapter Two. Authoritarian labor / Mark P. Worrell

Chapter Three. Worker hostility to ‘jewish’ habitus / Mark P. Worrell

Chapter Four. The hatred of ‘jewish’ economic practices / Mark P. Worrell

Chapter Five. Political and social dimensions of worker antisemitism / Mark P. Worrell

Chapter Six. The social bases and dynamics of exterminatory antisemitism / Mark P. Worrell

Chapter Seven. Theorizing american labor antisemitism / Mark P. Worrell

Conclusion / Mark P. Worrell

Appendix A. AFL and CIO Unions represented in the ISR’s labor and antisemitism project / Mark P. Worrell

Appendix B. The ISR’s “Survey of studies prepared by the institute” (August 1944) / Mark P. Worrell

Appendix C. The ISR’s methods and data / Mark P. Worrell

Appendix D. Degree of intensity of prejudice and targets of critique / Mark P. Worrell

Appendix E. The ISR’s contributors to the “Studies in antisemitism” and key labor study personnel / Mark P. Worrell

Archival sources, libraries, and special collections / Mark P. Worrell

References / Mark P. Worrell

Index of names / Mark P. Worrell

Index of subjects / Mark P. Worrell

Studies in critical social sciences / Mark P. Worrell.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [331]-340) and indexes.

ISBN:

1-282-39949-7

9786612399497

90-474-4318-7

OCLC:

593231958

Publisher Number:

10.1163/ej.9789004168862.i-348 DOI