The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780860915508 (0860915506)
Publish date: September 17th 1991
Publisher: Verso
Pages no: 200
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
History,
Academic,
School,
Politics,
Philosophy,
American History,
Sociology,
Theory,
Social Issues,
Class,
Race,
Labor
The point of this book is that it has been hugely influential and it is worth reading for that reason, even though it has merely opened the gate through which many later writers have poured. It does not make exaggerated claims for itself and the author’s preface lists defects in a way that I canno...