The New Deal inherited Fordist paternalism, racial segmentation, and gendered labor division.

Evidence

In declaring himself the father of Detroit’s working class, Roosevelt placed himself in a position long occupied by the industrial magnate Henry Ford, who had pioneered a paternalist mode of government predicated on high wages, working-class consumption, women’s unpaid labour in the home, intense disciplinary surveillance of working-class households, and brutal suppression of industrial action. As president, Roosevelt’s New Deal took over central planks of Henry Ford’s model by combining welfare provision with racial segmentation and discrimination, a gendered division of labour, state paternalism and social pacification. He established a racialised compact that mediated the struggle between state, labour and business, and positioned a ‘white working class’ in jobs that were more secure and better paid than those of non-white workers. — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 165

Categorization

• XREF: Welfare provision as racialized stratification connects directly to the reader’s austerity/neoliberalism literature on how social programs encode racial and gender hierarchies. — connects to: Differential incorporation of labor sectors systematically coincides with racist and ethnic segmentary features; Spatial segregation weakens paternalism’s coercive power over subordinates; Racial segmentation is economically reproduced through unfree labor institutions like reserves and compounds (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Differential incorporation of labor sectors systematically coincides with racist and ethnic segmentary features #expands (0.82)
• US unions traded bargaining power for collaboration with Fordist production #expands (0.80) — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 798
• Racial segmentation is economically reproduced through unfree labor institutions like reserves and compounds #expands (0.78)
• Spatial segregation weakens paternalism’s coercive power over subordinates #qualifies (0.75)
• Worker accommodation to Fordist labor remained a surface adaptation, not internalized consent #qualifies (0.75) — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 801