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The wages of whiteness : race and the making of the American working class
Author
Title
The wages of whiteness : race and the making of the American working class / David R. Roediger.
ISBN
9781844671267 (hbk.)
1844671267 (hbk.)
1844671453 (pbk.)
9781844671458 (pbk.)
Edition
Rev. ed.
Published
London : Verso, 2007.
Physical Description
xxvi, 195 p. ; 21 cm.
Local Notes
BEIN 2021 1838: Number line on title page verso indicates second printing: "3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2". Paperbound. Bookseller's sticker on spine: Thirftbooks. From the Claudia Rankine Collection of The Racial Imaginary Institute.
Notes
Originally published: 1991.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 14, 2008
Series
Haymarket series
Bibliography
Includes bibliography (p. 185-187) and index.
Contents
Introducing the white worker
Race and the languages of class from the Revolution to the Civil War
Work, culture, and whiteness in industrializing America
The limits of emancipation and the fate of working class whiteness.
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
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Claudia Rankine Collection of The Racial Imaginary Institute (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
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