Title:
Racializing class, classifying race : labour and difference in Britain, the USA, and Africa
Author:
Alexander, Peter.
ISBN:
9780312229993
Publication Information:
New York : St. Martin's Press, in association with St. Antony's College, Oxford, 2000.
Physical Description:
xi, 250 p. ; 23 cm.
Series:
St. Antony's series.
Series Title:
St. Antony's series.
Contents:
Empire, race and working-class mobilizations / 'Mexican labour' in a 'white man's town' : racialism, imperialism and industrializaton in the making of Arizona, 1840-1905 / 'Lady' telephone operator : gendering whiteness in the Bell sytems, 1900-70 / Elusive Irishman : ethnicity and the postwar world of New York City and London dockers / Racialized hierarchy of labour? Race, immigration and the British labour movement, 1880-1950 / Racism and resistance in British trade unions, 1948-79 / Colonial labour and work palaver : labour conflict in Britain and West Africa / Becoming 'men', becoming 'workers' : race, gender and workplace struggle in the Nigerian coal industry, 1937-49 / 'Did not come to work on Monday' : the East London waterfront in comparative perspective, c.1930-63 / Back to work : categories, boundaries and connections in the study of labour