Work, Race, and the Emergence of Radical Right Corporatism in Imperial Germany. By Dennis Sweeney. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press. 2009. Pp. xii+279. Cloth $75.00. ISBN 10: 0472116789.

摘要

Although it is not clear from the title, this book is about managerial ideologies inrnthe Saar. The account begins in the reign of Carl Ferdinand von Stumm-rnHalberg, the steel baron whose name became synonymous with a “paternalist”rnsystem of labor relations, which combined comprehensive supervision andrnextensive benefits—from wage bonuses to factory housing—in order to disci-rnpline the workforce. Sweeney then analyzes a series of challenges to this tutelaryrnregime, as Protestant liberals, Catholics, and Socialists attempted at the end ofthe nineteenth century to organize workers in the Saar. In response, employersrnfostered company unions and, in support of this enterprise, embraced a newrnideology of industrial relations. Its basis was a “corporatist vision of aworld com-rnposed of ‘occupational estates’” (p. 168) that appealed to the scientific impera-rntives of productivity and bio-racial health in order to discipline workers. Anrnepilogue to the account then charts the place of this vision in the genealogyrnof “fascist corporatism” in the 1930s.