Racializing Class,Classifying Race pp 1-31 | Cite as
Empire, Race and Working-class Mobilizations
Abstract
Working-class mobilizations in England, South Africa and the United States have exhibited remarkable differences and remarkable similarities during the last 150 years. The purpose of this essay is to explore the relationship between the different trajectories of working-class movements in those three corners of the Atlantic world during the twentieth century and the changing patterns of imperial domination and rule, with the hope of formulating meaningful questions about the relationship of empire, race and class in modern life. Such an effort can build on decades of research into the diverse ways in which working women and men have burrowed their own enclaves of collective power into a global economy driven by the accumulation of wealth and shaped by market relations and military might. History remains a collective project, no matter how much pleasure and profit we may derive from controversies among ourselves.
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Trade Union Social History Wage Labour Black Worker White WorkerPreview
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