Mass unemployment isolates families and weakens parental authority

Evidence

On the whole, the results confirmed the Studien’s argument about the decline of the contemporary family’s authority. They also implied the increased atomization of man in mass society, for, as Miss Komarovsky wrote, “the unemployed man and his wife have no social life outside the family. The extent of the social isolation of the family is truly striking."" — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 438

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s broader interest in the decline of the family as an institution and mass-society atomization themes across the Frankfurt School canon. — connects to: Unemployment functions as a deliberate worker-discipline device — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism: An Intervention, 18; Paternal authority within families diminishes with unemployment — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 690; Interwar experts saw parental authority declining across European families — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 560 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Unemployment functions as a deliberate worker-discipline device #complicates (0.80) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 18