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Work, Race, and the Emergence of Radical Right Corporatism in Imperial Germany (Hardcover)
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Work, Race, and the Emergence of Radical Right Corporatism in Imperial Germany (Hardcover)
Series: Social History, Popular Culture and Politics in Germany
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In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Saar
river valley was one of the three most productive heavy industrial
regions in Germany and one of the main reference points for
national debates over the organization of work in large-scale
industry. Among Germany's leading opponents of trade unions, Saar
employers were revered for their system of factory organization,
which was both authoritarian and paternalistic, stressing
discipline and punitive measures and seeking to regulate behavior
on and off the job. In its repressive and beneficent dimensions,
the Saar system provided a model for state labor and welfare policy
during much of the 1880s and 1890s. Dennis Sweeney examines the
relationship between labor relations in heavy industry and public
life in the Saar as a means of tracing some of the wider
political-ideological changes of the era. Focusing on the changing
discourses, representations, and institutions that gave shape and
meaning to factory work and labor conflict in the Saar, "Work,
Race, and the Emergence of Radical Right Corporatism in Imperial
Germany" demonstrates the ways in which Saar factory culture and
labor relations were constituted in wider fields of public
discourse and anchored in the institutions of the local-regional
public sphere and the German state. Of particular importance is the
gradual transition in the Saar from a paternalistic workplace to a
corporatist factory regime, a change that brought with it an
authoritarian vision that ultimately converged with core elements
in the ideological discourses of the German radical Right,
including the National Socialists. This volume will be of interest
to scholars and students of labor, industrial organization,
ideology and political culture, and the genealogies of Nazism.
Dennis Sweeney is Associate Professor of History at the University
of Alberta. "The author makes a very insightful argument about the
emergence of a kind of scientific racism within the new
corporatism, one that brings biopolitics into German industry prior
to the rise of National Socialism. This book will be an important
contribution to the history of Imperial Germany, and has much
potential to appeal to audiences in other fields of history."
---Andrew Zimmerman, George Washington University
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Imprint: |
The University of Michigan Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Social History, Popular Culture and Politics in Germany |
Release date: |
March 2009 |
First published: |
April 2009 |
Authors: |
Dennis Sweeney
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 25mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
288 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-472-11678-2 |
Categories: |
Books >
Humanities >
History >
General
Books >
History >
General
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LSN: |
0-472-11678-9 |
Barcode: |
9780472116782 |
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