`IR Experts' and the New Deal State: The Diary of a Defeated Subsumed Class
Year: 2009
Type: article
Abstract: This essay develops and applies Resnick and Wolff's conception of `subsumed classes', groups that receive a portion of surplus value for helping capitalists reproduce their class position. We profile the rise and fall of one such subsumed class, the industrial relations (IR) experts whose theories and practices sought to depoliticize and curb the militancy of the US labor movement. We argue that these IR experts established themselves as a subsumed class in the 1930s and then lost that position in the 1970s and 1980s.
Source: Critical Sociology
Authors: Michael Hillard, Richard McIntyre
Institutions: University of Southern Maine, University of Rhode Island
Language: English
Topic: Labor Movements and Unions
Subfield: Public Administration
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2017523449