Media and Culture in the U.S. Jewish Labor Movement

Media and Culture in the U.S. Jewish Labor Movement

Sweating for Democracy in the Interwar Era

Dolber, Brian

Springer International Publishing AG

01/2017

256

Dura

Inglês

9783319435473

15 a 20 dias

4552


ebook

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1. Introduction.- 2. 'Digging in the Dark': The Forward's Advertising Strategy in the 1920s.- 3. 'Cutting the Pathway in the Wilderness and Confusion': Worker Education and the Garment Unions, 1919-1932.- 4. Moving Forward on the Air: The Birth of WEVD and the Rise of Commercial Radio.- 5. 'A Song of Social Significance': Jewish Labor, Mass Culture, and the New Deal.- 6. 'The Most Effective Weapon': Consumer Activism and the Jewish Labor Committee's Anti-Nazi Boycott.- 7. A 'Friendly Negotiation': Jewish Labor, the Newspaper Guild, and the Limits of the New Deal.- 8. Epilogue.
Commercial media;New Deal;Twentieth-century America;Consumer culture;Political left;religion and society