Revisiting White Labourism
New Debates on Working-Class Whiteness in Twentieth-Century Southern Africa
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9968237 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Duncan Money (0000-0003-3412-1989, African Studies Centre, corresponding author), Danelle Van Zyl-Hermann (0000-0002-1078-1360, University of Basel, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 66 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 469-491 |
| Publication date | 2021-07-14 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Review of Social History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-8590 • E-ISSN: 1469-512X |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0020859021000407 |
| OpenAlex | W3187150166 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 20 |
This article is a contribution to and reassessment of the debate about the concept of ‘white labourism’ hosted in this journal in 2010. White labourism is a concept formulated by Jonathan Hyslop to describe an ideology combining an anti-capitalist critique with racial segregation that he argued was dominant in a transnational white working class in the British Empire in the early twentieth century. The debate about this concept has focused on the appeal and extent of this ideology in South Africa during the early twentieth century. In light of recent scholarship on Southern Africa, we take a longer-term perspective to critically examine the concept and the debate. Specifically, we make three interventions into this debate: we consider the role of white workers outside British imperial networks; we examine how radical and revolutionary ideas disappeared from white-working class politics in the mid-twentieth century; and we reassess the connection between transnational flows of people and ideas. Racial divisions in the working class and labour movement in Southern Africa were persistent and enduring. We argue that racial segregation had an enduring appeal to white workers in Southern Africa, and the sources of this appeal were more varied and locally rooted than simply transnational migration to the region
Appeal · Ideology · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Scholarship · Sociology · White (mutation · White supremacy · Working class · African history and culture studies · Gender Studies · Law · Race, History, and American Society · South African History and Culture
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The Nation and Beyond
South African History and Subaltern Historiography
Confronting White Labourism
Class, Race and Democracy in the CIO
Privileging the Machines
The World of European Labour on the Northern Rhodesian Copperbelt, 1940–1945
How the British Working Class Became White
The Imperial Working Class Makes Itself 'White
Rebels without a Cause of Their Own
Towards a Gendered and Raced Socialist Internationalism
The First Globalisation and Transnational Labour Activism in Southern Africa
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |