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

• Superior document: Studies in critical social sciences, v. 11
• Author: Worrell, Mark P.
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in critical social sciences ; v. 11.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (366 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

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 Dialectic of Solidarity draws upon unpublished research reports of the Frankfurt School and represents a unique and multidimensional view of the political imagination of the wartime American worker and the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.'

Table of 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.