Media and Culture in the U.S. Jewish Labor Movement

Brian Dolber has been Assistant Professor at SUNY College at Oneonta, USA and taught courses at the American Jewish University. As a committed scholar-activist, he has worked with the Service Employees International Union, American Federation of Teachers, the Graduate Employees’ Organization, and Unite Here Local 11. He is the winner of the Margaret A. Blanchard Best Dissertation Prize from the American Journalism Historians Association.

1. Introduction.- 2. 'Digging in the Dark': The Forward's Advertising Strategy in the 1920s.- 3. 'Cutting the Pathway in the Wilderness and Confusion': Worker Education and the Garment Unions, 1919-1932.- 4. Moving Forward on the Air: The Birth of WEVD and the Rise of Commercial Radio.- 5. 'A Song of Social Significance': Jewish Labor, Mass Culture, and the New Deal.- 6. 'The Most Effective Weapon': Consumer Activism and the Jewish Labor Committee's Anti-Nazi Boycott.- 7. A 'Friendly Negotiation': Jewish Labor, the Newspaper Guild, and the Limits of the New Deal.- 8. Epilogue.