The Institute’s wartime labor study was funded through organized labor connections

Evidence

Far more ambitious was a massive study of the degree of antiSemitism within American labor, which the Institut began to organize in 1943 and carried out in the following two years. At about the same time as the American Jewish Committee had extended its offer of support, the Jewish Labor Committee, chaired by Adolph Held, made a grant of somewhat more modest proportions available for re search into its own special area of interest. The JLC had created a Committee to Combat Anti-Semitism with Charles S. Zimmerman as its head and was anxious to begin with a scientific analysis of the problem. Its contacts with the AFL, the CIO, and various nonaffiliated unions facilitated the collection of data, which was carried on in New York, California, and Detroit. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 673

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• XREF: connects to: The informal Marxist Work Week expanded into a permanent research institute — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 95; The Jewish Labor Committee funded Frankfurt School research on labor and anti-Semitism — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1554