ISBN:
9781608460366
,
1608460363
Language:
English
Pages:
xvii, 347 pages
,
illustrations
,
24 cm
Year of publication:
2009
Series Statement:
Studies in critical social sciences 11
Series Statement:
Studies in critical social sciences
Keywords:
Working class / United States / Attitudes
;
Antisemitism / United States
;
Frankfurt school of sociology
;
Travailleurs / États-Unis / Attitudes
;
Antisémitisme / États-Unis
;
École de Francfort (Sociologie)
;
Antisemitism
;
Frankfurt school of sociology
;
Working class / Attitudes
;
Working class / United States / Attitudes
;
Antisemitism / United States
;
Frankfurt school of sociology
;
United States / Social conditions / 1939-1945
;
United States / https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJtxgQXMWqmjMjjwXRHgrq
;
United States / Social conditions / 1939-1945
Abstract:
In 1944 the Institute of Social Research, known as the Frankfurt School, investigated the ideological views of the US working class. This volume draws upon unpublished research reports to present a multidimensional view of the political imagination of the wartime American worker
Description / Table of Contents:
Politics, labor, and the Frankfurt School in America -- Authoritarian labor -- Worker hostility to 'Jewish' habitus -- The hatred of 'Jewish' economic practices -- Political and social dimensions of worker antisemitism -- The social bases and dynamics of exterminatory antisemitism -- Theorizing American labor antisemitism -- Appendices. AFL and CIO Unions represented in the ISR's labor and antisemitism project -- The ISR's "survey of studies prepared by the institute" ((August 1944) -- The ISR's methods and data -- Degree of intensity of prejudice and targets of critique -- The ISR's contributors to the "Studies in Antisemitism" and key labor study personnel
Note:
Originally published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008
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