| Class, Work and Whiteness: Race and Settler Colonialism in Southern Rhodesia, 1919-79 Contributor(s): Ginsburgh, Nicola (Author), Lester, Alan (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1526143879 ISBN-13: 9781526143877 Publisher: Manchester University Press OUR PRICE: $123.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Africa - South - General - History | Modern - 20th Century - History | Social History |
| Physical Information: 0.81" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.37 lbs) 288 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book offers the first comprehensive history of white workers from the end of the First World War to Zimbabwean independence in 1980. It reveals how white worker identity was constituted, examines the white labouring class as an ethnically and nationally heterogeneous formation comprised of both men and women, and emphasises the active participation of white workers in the ongoing and contested production of race. White wage labourers' experiences, both as exploited workers and as part of the privileged white minority, offer insight into how race and class co-produced one another and how boundaries fundamental to settler colonialism were regulated and policed. Based on original research conducted in Zimbabwe, South Africa and the UK, this book offers a unique theoretical synthesis of work on gender, whiteness studies, labour histories, settler colonialism, Marxism, emotions and the New African Economic History. |