The “Background Conditions” of the Hedge Fund in General Electric’s Schenectady: Reconsidering the “History of Capitalism”

This article applies Nancy Fraser’s theory of capitalism’s “background conditions” to a grassroots case study: the formative influences of Progressive-Era Schenectady’s social relations on the socialist who created the hedge fund, Alfred Winslow Jones. In showing how “capitalist” background conditio...

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Main Author: David Huyssen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Association Française d'Etudes Américaines 2021-02-01
Series:Transatlantica
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/transatlantica/15968
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