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    An Ordinary White

    David Roediger

    A prize-winning historian details his intellectual and political evolution

    Written by the author of the landmark book The Wages of Whiteness and one of the key figures in the critical…

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    Sinking Middle Class: A Political History of Debt, Misery, and the Drift to the Right

    David Roediger

    A fierce, historically informed polemic against the idea that the middle class is the key to US greatness, past and future.

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    Sinking Middle Class: A Political History of Debt, Misery, and the Drift to the Right

    David Roediger

    A fierce, historically informed polemic against the idea that the middle class is the key to US greatness, past and future.

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    Working Toward Whiteness: How America’s Immigrants Became White: The Strange Journey from Ellis Island to the Suburbs

    David Roediger

    How did immigrants to the United States come to see themselves as white?

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    The Best American History Essays 2008

    David Roediger,David R. Roediger,David Roediger

    This third annual volume from the Organization of American Historians, containing the best American history articles published between the summers of 2006 and 2007, provides a quick and comprehensive overview…

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    The Image of Whiteness: Contemporary Photography and Racialization

    How contemporary photographers from Hank Willis Thomas to Libita Clayton have subverted the constructions and complicities of whiteness

    From the advent of early colonial photography in the 19th century to…

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    Seizing Freedom: Slave Emancipation and Liberty for All

    David R Roediger

    Forceful and detailed account of the struggle for freedom after the American Civil War

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    Towards the Abolition of Whiteness: Essays on Race, Politics, and Working Class History

    David R Roediger

    Taking a multi-disciplinary approach, this prize-winning author offers reflections on how the history of white racism continues to have impact on political and social life today. His previous book, The…

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    Joe Hill: The IWW & the Making of a Revolutionary Workingclass Counterculture

    Franklin Rosemont

    A monumental work, expansive in scope, covering the life, times, and culture of that most famous of the Wobblies-songwriter, poet, hobo, thinker, humorist, martyr-Joe Hill. It is a journey into…

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    Haymarket Scrapbook: 25th Anniversary Edition

    In November, we remember! A new edition of a long out-of-print classic honoring the greatest flashpoint in American labor history.

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    Seizing Freedom: Slave Emancipation and Liberty for All

    David R Roediger

    Forceful and detailed account of the struggle for freedom after the American Civil War

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    Class, Race, and Marxism

    David R Roediger

    Founder of whiteness studies surveys the race/class relationship

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    Class, Race, and Marxism

    David R Roediger

    Founder of whiteness studies surveys the race-class relationship

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    How Race Survived US History: From Settlement and Slavery to The Eclipse of Post-Racialism

    David R Roediger

    An absorbing chronicle of the role of race in US history, by the foremost historian of race and labour

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    Colored White: Transcending the Racial Past

    David R. Roediger

    Argues that in its political workings, its distribution of advantages, and its unspoken assumptions, the United States is a ‘still white’ nation. This book presents an account of race-transcending radicalism…

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    Archie Green: The Making of a Working-Class Hero

    Sean Burns

    Remembering a life devoted to preserving working-class traditions

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    The Big Red Songbook: 250+ IWW Songs!

    Originally published 2007 by Charles H. Kerr Publishing Company –title page verso.

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    Our Own Time: A History of American Labor and the Working Day

    David R Roediger,Philip S Foner

    Our Own Time retells the story of American labor by focusing on the politics of time and the movements for a shorter working day. It argues that the length of…

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    The Meaning of Slavery in the North

    Southern cotton planters and Northern textile mill owners maintained what has been called an unholy alliance between the lords of the lash and the lords of the loom. This collection…

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    Our Own Time: A History of American Labor and the Working Day

    David R. Roediger,Philip S. Foner

    Combining the narrative and trade union emphasis of traditional labor history with the focus on culture and the labor process characteristic of contemporary labor history, the book offers an illuminating…

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    Special Sorrows: The Diasporic Imagination of Irish, Polish, and Jewish Immigrants in the United States

    Matthew Frye Jacobson

    A scholarly study of the real roots of what Jacobson calls ‘America’s largely assimilated but ultimately unmeltable ethics.’ It’s a startling point of view for readers who are accustomed to…

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    The Meaning of Slavery in the North

    Southern cotton planters and Northern textile mill owners maintained what has been called an unholy alliance between the lords of the lash and the lords of the loom. This collection…

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    Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class

    David R Roediger

    The classic history of how the identity of white worker came to be, and the awful results.

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    The Construction of Whiteness: An Interdisciplinary Analysis of Race Formation and the Meaning of a White Identity

    Collects interdisciplinary essays that examine the crucial intersection between whiteness as a privileged racial category and the various material practices (social, cultural, political, and economic) that undergird white ideological influence…

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    The Construction of Whiteness: An Interdisciplinary Analysis of Race Formation and the Meaning of a White Identity

    Collects interdisciplinary essays that examine the crucial intersection between whiteness as a privileged racial category and the various material practices that undergird white ideological influence in America. Editors and contributors…

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    John Brown

    W.E.B. DuBois

    First published in 1909, this biography defends abolitionist John Brown against all detractors who saw him as a fanatic, fiend or traitor. It shows Brown as an unusual leader with…

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    The Big Red Songbook: 250-Plus Iww Songs

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    Culture, Gender, Race, and U.S. Labor History

    Ronald C Kent,Sara Markham,David R. Roediger,Herbert Shapiro

    Combines the best aspects of the old institutional labor history and the new social history of working people.

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    Treason to Whiteness is Loyalty to Humanity

    Noel Ignatiev

    A new collection of essays from the bomb throwing intellectual who described the historical origins and evolution of whiteness and white supremacy - and taught us how we might destroy…

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    Against Labor: How U.S. Employers Organized to Defeat Union Activism

    Against Labor highlights the tenacious efforts by employers to organize themselves as a class to contest labor. Ranging across a spectrum of understudied issues, essayists explore employer anti-labor strategies and…

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    Against Labor: How U.S. Employers Organized to Defeat Union Activism

    Against Labor highlights the tenacious efforts by employers to organize themselves as a class to contest labor. Ranging across a spectrum of understudied issues, essayists explore employer anti-labor strategies and…

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    Experimental Psychology

    Barry Kantowitz (University of Michigan),Henry Roediger, III (Washington University in St. Louis),David Elmes (Washington and Lee University)

    Offers a fresh approach to the fundamentals of research methodology. This title is organized by topic - such as research in human factors, learning, thinking, and problem solving - and…

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    The Production of Difference: Race and the Management of Labor in U.S. History

    David R. Roediger (Kendrick C. Babcock Professor of History, Kendrick C. Babcock Professor of History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign),Elizabeth D. Esch (Assistant Professor of History, Assistant Professor of History, Barnard College)

    Centering on race and empire, this book revolutionizes the history of management. From slave management to U.S. managers functioning as transnational experts on managing diversity, it shows how modern management…

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    The Production of Difference: Race and the Management of Labor in U.S. History

    David R. Roediger (Kendrick C. Babcock Professor of History, Kendrick C. Babcock Professor of History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign),Elizabeth D. Esch (Assistant Professor of History and American Studies, Assistant Professor of History and American Studies, Barnard College)

    Centering on race and empire, this book revolutionizes the history of management. From slave management to U.S. managers functioning as transnational experts on managing diversity, it shows how modern management…

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    Race and the Early Republic: Racial Consciousness and Nation-Building in the Early Republic

    The essays in this volume are arranged so as to allow a clear understanding of how and why white political supremecy came to be in the early United States.

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