During World War II it appeared that American workers had all that was required to defend democracy on the battlefields, and yet on the domestic front the working class 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 famous 'Frankfurt School' asked in 1944 when it studied of the American working class. Dialectic of Solidarity draws upon the school's unpublished research reports and represents a unique view of the political imagination of the American worker.
Dialectic of Solidarity draws upon unpublished research reports of the Frankfurt School and represents a unique and multidimensional view of the political imagination of the wartime American worker and the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.'
About the Author
Mark P. Worrell, Ph.D. (2003) in Sociology, University of Kansas, is Assistant Professor of Sociology at SUNY Cortland.