Es Kommt Die Nacht

Paul Massing, the Frankfurt School, and the Question of Labor Authoritarianism during World War II

Bibliographic Data

ID2369816
AuthorsMark P Worrell (SUNY Cortland, New York, USA, corresponding author)
Year2009
Volume35
Issue5
Pages629-635
Publication date2009-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCritical Sociology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0896-9205 • E-ISSN: 1569-1632
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0896920509337610
OpenAlexW2171253186
LanguageEN
References cited12

During World War II, Paul Massing, a research assistant at the Institute of Social Research (the famous 'Frankfurt School'), helped conduct one of the most important research projects in the history of Marxist sociology. Following on the Institute's earlier work on family and authority dynamics as well as the Weimar proletariat study, the wartime American labor anti-Semitism study resulted in a massive report that was never published. This article introduces Paul Massing, his role in the labor study, and some important findings regarding the effect of union affiliation and other key variables in regard to working-class authoritarianism

Authoritarianism · Democracy · Economics · First world war · Humanities · Labor history · Labor relations · Management · Marxist philosophy · Political science · Politics · Proletariat · Social science · Sociology · Working class · World War II · Critical Theory and Philosophy · European history and politics · German Social Sciences and History · Law

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