Racializing Class, Classifying Race
Labour and Difference in Britain, the USA and Africa
Published on 14. December 1999
XII, 250 pages
978-0-230-50096-9 (ISBN)
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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.
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Racializing Class, Classifying Race
Labour and Difference in Britain, the USA and Africa
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12/1999
Palgrave Macmillan
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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 Bissell-Heyd-Associates Chair of American Studies and Professor in the Department of History at the University of Toronto, Canada.
RICK HALPERN is Bissell-Heyd-Associates Chair of American Studies and Professor in the Department of History at the University of Toronto, Canada.
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
