Adolf Sturmthal

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.

Biography

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.

Works

Books
  • Die grosse Krise [The Great Crisis] (Europa Verlag, 1937)[4]
  • The Tragedy of European Labor: 1918-1939 (Columbia University Press, 1943)[5]
  • Unity and Diversity in European Labor: An Introduction to Contemporary Labor Movements (The Free Press, 1953)[6]
  • Workers Councils: A Study of Workplace Organization on Both Sides of the Iron Curtain (Harvard University Press, 1964)[7]
  • Comparative Labor Movements: Ideological Roots and Institutional Development (Wadsworth, 1972)[8]
  • Left of Center: European Labor since World War II (University of Illinois Press, 1983)[9]
  • Democracy Under Fire: The Memoirs Of A European Socialist (Suzanne S. Russin, editor, Duke University Press, 1988).[10]

Edited volumes
  • Contemporary Collective Bargaining in Seven Countries (Cornell International Industrial and Labor Relations Reports, 1957)[11]
  • White-Collar Trade Unions: Contemporary Developments in Industrialized Societies (University of Illinois Press, 1966)[12]
  • The International Labor Movement in Transition: Essays on Africa, Asia, Europe and South America (with James G. Scoville, University of Illinois Press, 1973)[13]

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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