Wages of Whiteness : Race and the Making of the American Working Class

by ROEDIGER, DAVID R.DAVIS, MIKE

• ISBN13: 9781859842409
• ISBN10: 1859842402
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 1999-01-17
• Publisher: VERSO

Summary

In an afterword to this new edition, Roediger discusses recent studies of whiteness and the changing face of labor itself. He surveys criticism of his work, accepting many objections whilst challenging others, especially the view that the study of working class racism implies a rejection of Marxism and radical politics.

Author Biography

David R. Roediger teaches history at the University of Minnesota.

Table of Contents

Textual Note
Acknowledgements
Introducing the White Worker
On Autobiography and Theory: An Introduction	p. 3
The Prehistory of the White Worker: Settler Colonialism, Race and Republicanism before 1800	p. 19
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	p. 43
White Slaves, Wage Slaves and Free White Labor	p. 65
Work, Culture and Whiteness in Industrializing America
Class, Coons and Crowds in Antebellum America	p. 95
White Skins, Black Masks: Minstrelsy and White Working Class Formation before the Civil War	p. 115
Irish-American Workers and White Racial Formation in the Antebellum United States	p. 133
The Limits of Emancipation and the Fate of Working Class Whiteness
Epilogue: A New Life and Old Habits	p. 167
Afterword to the Revised Edition	p. 185
Index	p. 191
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