Financial precarity drove the Institute’s directors into a research contract

Evidence

At a moment at which it still looked as if all three of themHorkheimer, Pollock and Adornowould have to return to the USA at around the same time, the Institute’s directors signed a contract with Friedrich Hacker to carry out one or more research projects, so as to ensure that they would have a source of income. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 480

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Research grants let the Institute shrink while its directors bought academic access. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 287; Deliberate funding starvation pushed Institute members toward government employment — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 321; The Institute’s contract research bought staff time while its worker study continued. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 394 (+3 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Research grants let the Institute shrink while its directors bought academic access. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 287; Deliberate funding starvation pushed Institute members toward government employment — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 321; The Institute’s contract research bought staff time while its worker study continued. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 394 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Losing financial independence forced the Frankfurt Institute to accept research contracts #corroborates (0.95) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1858