Adolf Sturmthal

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Adolf Fox Sturmthal (born 10 September 1903 in Vienna, died 11 June 1986 in Avon, Connecticut) was a U.S. political scientist, sociologist and journalist of Austrian birth who specialised in labour studies and international relations.

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Sturmthal earned a PhD in Political Science in 1925 at Vienna University. He was chairman of the Association of Austrian Social Democratic Students and Academics. He moved to Zurich in 1926 to assist Friedrich Adler, the secretary of the Labour and Socialist International, and was editor of International Information. In 1933 and 1934 he organised international aid for German and Austrian socialist refugees from the Austrofascist Dollfuss and Nazi regimes. [1] Following prosecution for alleged passport abuse, he emigrated to Belgium and Great Britain and then to the United States in 1938. [2]

Sturmthal was the first Philip Murray Professor of International Studies at Roosevelt University in Chicago. From 1960 he was a professor of labour and industrial sociology at the University of Illinois. The journal Foreign Affairs , reviewing a book to which Strumthal contributed, noted that Sturmthal's survey of foreign labor movements "will be of particular interest to readers of this journal." [3]

At the time of his death he lived in Champaign, Illinois.

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References

  1. ↑ "Adolf Sturmthal Papers". International Institute of Social History. Retrieved 11 April 2012.
  2. ↑ "Obituary: Adolf Sturmthal". New York Times. 13 June 1986. Retrieved 11 April 2012.
  3. ↑ Roberts, Henry L. (July 1958). "A Decade of Industrial Relations Research, 1946-1956". Foreign Affairs .
  4. ↑ Reviews of Die grosse Krise: Philipp H. Lohman, Books Abroad, JSTOR   40080879; Carl Landauer, Social Research, JSTOR   40981686; J. F. Cahan, International Affairs, JSTOR   3020072
  5. ↑ Reviews of The Tragedy of European Labor: Oscar Weigert, American Historical Review, JSTOR   1843585; Kurt Braun, American Sociological Review, JSTOR   2086327; Helen Fisher Hohman, Journal of Political Economy, JSTOR   1830999; Otto Nathan, Journal of Economic History, JSTOR   2113915; Maurice Agulhon, Revue Historique, JSTOR   40948455; Richard A. Lester, Southern Economic Journal, JSTOR   1053402; James J. Robbins, American Journal of International Law, JSTOR   2192515; C. Herman Pritchett, American Political Science Review, JSTOR   1950021; Robert I. Crane, Journal of the American Statistical Association, JSTOR   2279361; Alfred Braunthal, Social Research, JSTOR   40981986; R. Flenley, Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science, JSTOR   137393; James Edward Gillespie, Journal of Modern History, JSTOR   1871318; Ludwig von Mises, American Economic Review, JSTOR   1813028; Frieda Wunderlich, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, JSTOR   1024289
  6. ↑ Reviews of Unity and Diversity in European Labor: Allan M. Cartter, American Economic Review, JSTOR   1814148; Walter Galenson, ILR Review, JSTOR   2519124; John V. Spielmans, Journal of Political Economy, JSTOR   1827122; Bernard Karsh, American Journal of Sociology, JSTOR   2771923; Henry W. Ehrmann, Journal of Economic History, JSTOR   2114914; Robert G. Dixon, Jr., Journal of Politics, JSTOR   2126017; Frieda Wunderlich, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, JSTOR   1030022; E. Paterlini, Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Sociali, JSTOR   41618662
  7. ↑ Reviews of Workers Councils: W. Campbell Balfour, British Journal of Sociology, JSTOR   589072; Walter Galenson, Political Science Quarterly, JSTOR   2147020; Solomon Barkin, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, JSTOR   1035840; Edwin F. Beal, ILR Review, JSTOR   2520922; John Price, International Affairs, JSTOR   2611973; Jiri Kolaja, American Sociological Review, JSTOR   2091401; Z. M. Fallenbuchl, Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science, JSTOR   139977; Kent Geiger, Slavic Review, JSTOR   2493013; Philip Taft, American Economic Review, JSTOR   1809544; Daisy M. Tagliacozzo, American Journal of Sociology, JSTOR   2774964
  8. ↑ Review of Comparative Labor Movements: B. J. Widick, ILR Review, JSTOR   2521471
  9. ↑ Reviews of Left of Center: Fritz Stern, Foreign Affairs, JSTOR   20041961; Johannes Schregle, ILR Review, JSTOR   2523847; Kurt Klotzbach, Historische Zeitschrift, JSTOR   27624841; Andrei S. Markovits, International Labor and Working-Class History, JSTOR   27671613; Kenneth E. Miller, Journal of Politics, JSTOR   2131254
  10. ↑ Review of Democracy under Fire: Félix Kreissler, Le Mouvement social, JSTOR   3778911
  11. ↑ Reviews of Contemporary Collective Bargaining in Seven Countries: Kurt W. Rothschild, Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv, JSTOR   40434638; William H. McPherson, Journal of Political Economy, JSTOR   1824824; E. H. Phelps Brown, Economica, JSTOR   2550700; Walter Galenson, Journal of Business, JSTOR   2350736; Walter Galenson, ILR Review, JSTOR   2519741; Ludwig Wagner, American Economic Review, JSTOR   1809814; Edwin E. Witte, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, JSTOR   1031832; E. Robert Wallach, California Law Review, JSTOR   3478414
  12. ↑ Reviews of White-Collar Trade Unions: B. Manghi, Studi di Sociologia, JSTOR   23002619; Mark Perlman, Journal of Economic History, JSTOR   2115487; Bernard Karsh, American Sociological Review, JSTOR   2092911; K. Prandy, British Journal of Sociology, JSTOR   589199; Emanuele Porsia, Giornale degli Economisti e Annali di Economia, JSTOR   23243895; Ralph H. Bergmann, ILR Review, JSTOR   2521073
  13. ↑ Reviews of The International Labor Movement in Transition: Albert A. Blum, ILR Review, JSTOR   2522765; Solomon B. Levine, Economic Development and Cultural Change, JSTOR   1152847; E. M. Kassalow, The American Political Science Review, JSTOR   1959915
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