| Edition |
Rev. ed. |
| Description |
viii, 200 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
The Haymarket series
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| 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.
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Race discrimination -- United States -- History.
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Working class -- United States -- History.
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Slavery -- United States -- History.
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| ISBN |
1859842402 (pbk.) |
| Standard No. |
UKM bA005698 |
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