Racializing Class, Classifying Race
Labour and Difference in Britain, the USA and Africa
Published on 14. December 1999
Book
Hardback
264 pages
978-0-333-73092-8 (ISBN)
Description
The ten essays in this book explore the intersection of race and class in the study of labour on three continents. Leading scholars examine the way in which working-class identities took shape and changed over time in a variety of settings from the sea ports of southern Africa to the copper mining region of the American Southwest. Engaged with debates in current scholarship yet accessible to a general audience, these essays deepen an understanding of the international dimension of labour history .
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Basingstoke
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
notes, index
Dimensions
Height: 224 mm
Width: 145 mm
Weight
525 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-73092-8 (9780333730928)
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P. Alexander | R. Halpern
Racializing Class, Classifying Race
Labour and Difference in Britain, the USA and Africa
E-Book
12/1999
Palgrave Macmillan
€85.59
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Persons
PETER ALEXANDER, now Lecturer in Sociology at the Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa, was, until recently, a Research Fellow at St. Antony's College, Oxford. His book, Workers, War and the Origins of Apartheid is forthcoming. Currently he is working on a comparative study of Transvaal and Alabama colliers in the early twentieth century. RICK HALPERN is Reader in the History of the United States at University College London. He is the author of Down on the Killing Floor: Black and White Workers in Chicago's Packinghouses, 1904-1954 and co-editor (with Jonathan Morris), American Exceptionalism: US Working-Class Formation in an International Context. He is currently working on a study of race and labour in the sugar industries of Louisiana and Natal, South Africa.
Content
Notes on the Contributors - Introduction - Empire, Race, and Working-Class Mobilizations; D.Montgomery - 'Mexican Labor' in a 'White Man's Town': Racism, Imperialism, and Industrialization in the Making of Arizona, 1840-1905; A.Y.Huginnie - The 'Lady' Telephone Operator: Gendering Whiteness in the Bell System, 1900-1970; V.Green - The Elusive Irishman: Ethnicity and the Postwar World of New York City and London Dockers; C.J.Davis - A Racialized Hierarchy of Labour? Race, Immigration and the British Labour Movement, 1880-1950; K.Lunn - Racism and Resistance in British Trade Unions, 1948-1979; S.Virdee - Colonial Labour and Work Palaver: Labour Conflict in Britain and West Africa; D.Frost - Becoming 'Men', Becoming 'Workers': Race, Gender and Workplace Struggle in the Nigerian Coal Industry, 1937-1949; C.A.Brown - 'Did Not Come to Work on Monday': The East London Waterfront in Comparative Perspective, c.1930-1963; G.Minkley - Back to Work: Categories, Boundaries and Connections in the Study of Labour; F.Cooper - Index