The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class (Haymarket Series)

The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class (Haymarket Series)

Combining classical Marxism, psychoanalysis, and the new labor history pioneered by E. P. Thompson and Herbert Gutman, David Roediger’s widely acclaimed book provides an original study of the formativ…

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