Swedish Institute for Social Research and Department of Sociology, University of Stockholm the Working Class in Welfare Capitalism: Work, Unions and Strikes in Sweden

1976 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kari Vähätalo
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Welfare Capitalism

La Scuola di Francoforte in esilio: storia di un'inchiesta sull'antisemitismo nella classe operaia americana

2009 ◽  
pp. 121-140
Author(s):  
Catherine Collomp
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Third Reich ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
Anti Semitism ◽  
The Third Reich ◽  
American Working Class ◽  
Working World

- Between July and December 1944 the Institute for social research of Columbia University made known the results of a survey on anti-Semitism in the American working class carried out by the Jewish Labor Committee of New York. The results of the research confirmed the rooting of a few stereotypes and prejudices on Jews in some specific segments of the American working world: more widespread among "blue collars" rather than "white collars" and among the white population rather than the black. This form of anti-Semitism involved, paradoxically, also the workers of factories producing weapons to fight against the Third Reich. A form of anti-Semitism which did not stop with the end of World War II but turned, using the same mechanisms analyzed by migrant German sociologists, into a discrimination against communist militants.Parole chiave: Scuola di Francoforte, esilio, classe operaia, antisemitismo, razzismo, comunismo School of Frankfurt, exile, anti-Semitism, working class, racism, communism

The Working Class in Welfare Capitalism. Work, Unions and Politics in Sweden

1980 ◽  
pp. 116
Author(s):  
Chris Fisher ◽  
Chris Fischer ◽  
W. Korpi ◽  
G. Radice ◽  
J. R. Carby-Hall
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Welfare Capitalism

scholarly journals Engels@200: Friedrich Engels and Digital Capitalism. How Relevant Are Engels’s Works 200 Years After His Birth?

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-51
Author(s):  
Christian Fuchs
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Computational Social Science ◽  
Digital Capitalism ◽  
The Social ◽  
Critical Social Science ◽  
Friedrich Engels ◽  
Scientific Socialism

This paper takes Friedrich Engels 200th birthday on 28 November 2020 as occasion to ask: How relevant are Friedrich Engels’s works in the age of digital capitalism? It shows that Engels class-struggle oriented theory can and should inform 21st century social science and digital social research. Based on a reading of Engels’s works, the article discusses how to think of scientific socialism as critical social science today, presents a critique of computational social science as digital positivism, engages with foundations of digital labour analysis, the analysis of the international division of digital labour, updates Engels’s Condition of the Working Class in England in the age of digital capitalism, analyses the role of trade unions and digital class struggles in digital age, analyses the social murder of workers in the COVID-19 crisis, engages with platform co-operatives, digital commons projects and public service Internet platforms are concrete digital utopias that point beyond digital capital(ism). Engels’s analysis is updated for critically analysing the digital conditions of the working class today, including the digital labour of hardware assemblers at Foxconn and Pegatron, the digital labour aristocracy of software engineers at Google, online freelance workers, platform workers at capitalist platform corporations such as Uber, Deliveroo, Fiverr, Upwork, or Freelancer, and the digital labour of Facebook users. Engels’s 200th birthday reminds us of the class character of digital capitalism and that we need critical digital social science as a new form of scientific socialism.

The Institute of Community Studies, 1953–1958

2020 ◽  
pp. 101-157
Author(s):  
Lise Butler
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Nuclear Family ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Extended Family ◽  
Professional Status ◽  
Community Studies ◽  
Kinship Networks ◽  
The Family ◽  
A Site

Chapter 4 turns to the Institute of Community Studies, the Bethnal Green-based social research organization where Young and his colleague Peter Willmott published probably their best-known work, the 1957 Family and Kinship in East London. This and other Institute of Community Studies publications, such as Peter Townsend’s The Family Life of Old People, suggested that the family and extended family were crucial sources of mutual aid and social support for working-class communities, and that this aspect of working-class life had been overlooked by middle-class policy makers and urban planners who thought in terms of a more isolated and conventionally middle-class ‘nuclear’ family of parents and young children. This chapter shows that while Young and his colleagues did detect strong kinship networks in the communities they studied, their emphasis on the extended family was informed by a variety of contemporary developments in anthropology, psychology, and sociology, and by a political project to challenge the Labour Party’s emphasis on male labour and suggest that the extended family could provide an alternative to the workplace as a site of social solidarity. The chapter concludes with a discussion of the role of women in Young’s dystopian satire The Rise of the Meritocracy, which argues that Young idealized women, and the relationships between them, for being less defined by work and professional status.

The Working Class in Welfare Capitalism: Work, Unions and Politics in Sweden.

ILR Review ◽  
1980 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 275
Author(s):  
Robert F. Banks ◽  
Walter Korpi
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Welfare Capitalism
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