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

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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Publicado: Association Française d'Etudes Américaines 2021
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capitalism
socialism
background conditions
Nancy Fraser
Schenectady
hedge fund
History America
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E11-143
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:ed42aae1031246e08d958a1db81976432021-12-02T10:14:13ZThe “Background Conditions” of the Hedge Fund in General Electric’s Schenectady: Reconsidering the “History of Capitalism”1765-276610.4000/transatlantica.15968https://doaj.org/article/ed42aae1031246e08d958a1db81976432021-02-01T00:00:00Zhttp://journals.openedition.org/transatlantica/15968https://doaj.org/toc/1765-2766This 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 conditions also depended on and cultivated socialist subjectivities that contributed to Jones’s creation of the hedge fund, it illustrates both value and limits in Fraser’s theory and the “history of capitalism” framework.David HuyssenAssociation Française d'Etudes Américainesarticlecapitalismsocialismbackground conditionsNancy FraserSchenectadyhedge fundHistory AmericaE-FAmericaE11-143ENFRTransatlantica : Revue d'Études Américaines, Vol 2 (2021)
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language EN
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topic capitalism
socialism
background conditions
Nancy Fraser
Schenectady
hedge fund
History America
E-F
America
E11-143
spellingShingle capitalism
socialism
background conditions
Nancy Fraser
Schenectady
hedge fund
History America
E-F
America
E11-143
David Huyssen
The “Background Conditions” of the Hedge Fund in General Electric’s Schenectady: Reconsidering the “History of Capitalism”
description 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 conditions also depended on and cultivated socialist subjectivities that contributed to Jones’s creation of the hedge fund, it illustrates both value and limits in Fraser’s theory and the “history of capitalism” framework.
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