Synopses & Reviews
The ten essays in this book explore the intersection of race and class in the study of labor 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 labor history.
Synopsis
What are the different ways in which racial and class identities intersect? The ten essays in this volume explore this question from a number of different angles and in a variety of geographic settings.
About the Author
Peter Alexander is Lecturer in Sociology at the Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa.
Rick Halpern is Reader in the History of the United States at University College of London.
Table of Contents
Empire, Race and Working-class Mobilizations--David Montgomery *
Mexican Labor in a
White Man's Town --Yvette Huginnie * The
Lady Telephone Operator--Venus Green * The Elusive Irishman--Colin J. Davis * A Racialized Hierarchy of Labor?--Kenneth Lunn * Racism and Resistance in British Trade Unions--Satnam Virdee * Colonial Labor and Work Palaver--Diane Frost * Becoming
Men, Becoming
Workers --Did not Come to Work on Monday--Gary Minkley * Back to Work--Fredrick Cooper