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The wages of whiteness: race and the making of the American working class

David R. Roediger 2007 © Verso
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  • 9781844671267 (hardcover)
  • 9781844671458 (paper)
Subject
  • American: General & Multiperiod
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  • Table of Contents

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  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgements (page vii)
  • Preface to the Third Edition (page ix)
  • Introduction (Kathleen Cleaver, page xix)
  • PART I Introducing the White Worker
    • 1 On Autobiography and Theory: An Introduction (page 3)
    • 2 The Prehistory of the White Worker: Settler Colonialism, Race and Republicanism before 1800 (page 19)
  • PART II Race and the Languages of Class from the Revolution to the Civil War
    • 3 'Neither a Servant Nor a Master Am I': Keywords in the Languages of White Labor Republicanism (page 43)
    • 4 White Slaves, Wage Slaves and Free White Labor (page 65)
  • PART III Work, Culture and Whiteness in Industrializing America
    • 5 Class, Coons and Crowds in Antebellum America (page 95)
    • 6 White Skins, Black Masks: Minstrelsy and White Working Class Formation before the Civil War (page 115)
    • 7 Irish‐American Workers and White Racial Formation in the Antebellum United States (page 133)
  • PART IV The Limits of Emancipation and the Fate of Working Class Whiteness
    • 8 Epilogue: A New Life and Old Habits (page 167)
  • Selected Writings (page 185)
  • Index (page 189)
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Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
JSAS 20.4 (Dec. 1994): 663-669 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0305-7070%28199412%2920%3A4%3C663%3ALFATWO%3E2.0.CO%3B2-A
JIH 24.2 (Autumn 1993): 378-380 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0022-1953%28199323%2924%3A2%3C378%3ATWOWRA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-W
CS 22.2 (Mar. 1993): 177-178 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0094-3061%28199303%2922%3A2%3C177%3ATWOWRA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-S
JAH 79.3 (Dec. 1992): 1120-1121 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0021-8723%28199212%2979%3A3%3C1120%3ATWOWRA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-N
AHR 97.4 (Oct. 1992): 1280-1281 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-8762%28199210%2997%3A4%3C1280%3ATWOWRA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-B
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