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Racializing Class, Classifying Race

Labour and Difference in Britain, the USA and Africa

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  • © 2000

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Editors:
  1. Peter Alexander

    1. Rand Afrikaans University, Johannesburg, South Africa

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  2. Rick Halpern

    1. Reader in the History of the United States, University College London, UK

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Part of the book series: St Antony's Series (STANTS)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Empire, Race and Working-class Mobilizations

    • David Montgomery
    Pages 1-31

  3. ‘Mexican Labour’ in a ‘White Man’s Town’: Racialism, Imperialism and Industrialization in the Making of Arizona, 1840–1905

    • A. Yvette Huginnie
    Pages 32-56

  4. The ‘Lady’ Telephone Operator: Gendering Whiteness in the Bell System, 1900–70

    • Venus Green
    Pages 57-86

  5. The Elusive Irishman: Ethnicity and the Postwar World of New York City and London Dockers

    • Colin J. Davis
    Pages 87-103

  6. A Racialized Hierarchy of Labour? Race, Immigration and the British Labour Movement, 1880–1950

    • Kenneth Lunn
    Pages 104-121

  7. Racism and Resistance in British Trade Unions, 1948–79

    • Satnam Virdee
    Pages 122-149

  8. Colonial Labour and Work Palaver: Labour Conflict in Britain and West Africa

    • Diane Frost
    Pages 150-167

  9. Becoming ‘Men’, Becoming ‘Workers’: Race, Gender and Workplace Struggle in the Nigerian Coal Industry, 1937–49

    • Carolyn A. Brown
    Pages 168-192

  10. ‘Did Not Come to Work on Monday’: the East London Waterfront in Comparative Perspective, c.1930–63

    • Gary Minkley
    Pages 193-212

  11. Back to Work: Categories, Boundaries and Connections in the Study of Labour

    • Frederick Cooper
    Pages 213-235

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 236-250
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Rand Afrikaans University, Johannesburg, South Africa

    Peter Alexander

  • Reader in the History of the United States, University College London, UK

    Rick Halpern

About the editors

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.

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