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Frieda Wunderlich, 1899-1965.

German labor economist at the New School for Social Research. 

Frieda Wunderlich studied at Berlin and Freiburg, obtaining her doctorate in the latter in 1919, going on to teach at Handelshochschule in Berlin.. Frieda Wunderlich was also an activist of the left-liberal German Democratic Party (DPP), publisher of the journal Soziale Praxis from 1923, and a member of the Prussian state parliament from 1930 to 1932.  From 1930, she was also taught economics and sociology at the Staatliches Berufspädagogisches Institut (State Vocational Institute) in Berlin.

Of Jewish heritage, Wunderlich was promptly dismissed by the Nazis in 1933.  She emigrated the US later that same year, joining other German emigres at the New School for Social Research. In 1939, after the death of Lederer in 1939, Wunderlich was appointed dean of the Graduate Faculty, the first women to serve as a dean of a graduate school in a US university.

 

  

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Major Works of Frieda Wunderlich

  • "Kapitalische Philosophie", 1916, Archiv fur systematische Philosophie
  • Hugo Münsterbergs Bedeutung für die Nationalökonomie, 1920
  • Die Bekämpfung der Arbeitslosigkeit in Deutschland, 1925
  • Produktivität, 1926
  • Der Kampf um die Sozialversicherung, 1930
  • Versicherung und Fürsorge under Krisenriskio, 1932
  • "New Aspects of Unemployment in Germany", 1934, Social Research.
  • "Women's Work in Germany", 1935, Social Research.
  • "Some Aspects of Social Work in the German Democratic Republic", 1936, Social Research.
  • "Germany's Defense Economy and the Decay of Capitalism", 1938, QJE.
  • Labor under German Democracy: Arbitration, 1918-1933, 1940
  • British Labor and the War, 1941
  • "Fascism and the German Middle Classes", 1945, Antioch Review.
  • German Labor Courts, 1946
  • Farm Labor in Germany, 1810-1945, 1961

 
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