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Author Roediger, David R.

Title The wages of whiteness : race and the making of the American working class / David R. Roediger.

Imprint London ; New York : Verso, 1999.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  305.8009 R622w 1999    ---  Available
Edition Rev. ed.
Description viii, 200 p. ; 24 cm.
Series The Haymarket series
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introducing the white worker. On autobiography and theory : an introduction ; The prehistory of the white worker : settler colonialism, race and republicanism before 1800 -- Race and the languages of class from the Revolution to the Civil War. "Neither a servant nor a master am I" : keywords in the languages of white labor republicanism ; White slaves, wage slaves and free white labor -- Work, culture and whiteness in industrializing America. Class, coons and crowds in antebellum America ; White skins, black masks : minstrelsy and white working class formation before the Civil War ; Irish-American workers and white racial formation in the antebellum United States -- The limits of emancipation and the fate of working class whiteness. Epilogue: a new life and old habits.
Subject Discrimination in employment -- United States -- History.
Race discrimination -- United States -- History.
Working class -- United States -- History.
Slavery -- United States -- History.
ISBN 1859842402 (pbk.)
Standard No. UKM bA005698

 
    
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