Dialectic of Solidarity: Labor, Antisemitism, and the Frankfurt School (Studies in Critical Social Sciences)

Dialectic of Solidarity draws upon unpublished research reports of the Frankfurt School and represents a unique and multidimensional view of the political imagination of the wartime American worker and the problem of antisemitism. 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 This Volume Draws Upon Unpublished Research Reports To Present A Multidimensional View Of The Political Imagination Of The Wartime American Worker. Introduction -- Chapter 1, Politics, Labor, And The Frankfurt School In America -- Chapter 2, Authoritarian Labor -- Chapter 3, Worker Hostility To Jewish Habitus -- Chapter 4, The Hatred Of Jewish Economic Practices -- Chapter 5, Political And Social Dimensions Of Worker Antisemitism -- Chapter 6, The Social Bases And Dynamics Of Exterminatory Antisemitism -- Conclusion -- Appendix A, Afl And Cio Unions Represented In The Isr's Labor And Antisemitism Project -- Appendix B, The Isr's Survey Of Studies Prepared By The Institute (august 1944) -- Appendix C, The Isr's Methods And Data -- Appendix D, Degree Of Intensity Of Prejudice And Targets Of Critique -- Appendix E, The Isr's Contributors To The Studies In Antisemitism And Key Labor Study Personnel. By Mark P. Worrell. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [331]-340) And Indexes. 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 Dialectic of Solidarity draws upon unpublished research reports of the Frankfurt School and represents a unique and multidimensional view of the political imagination of the wartime American worker and the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.'