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- Title
Model Defects: A Review of Bruce Laurie's "Workers, Abolitionists, and the Historians: A Historiographical Perspective.".
- Authors
Huston, James L.
- Abstract
This article responds to the article "Workers, Abolitionists, and the Historians: A Historiographical Perspective," by Bruce Laurie, which appears in this issue. It discusses Laurie's references to David Roediger's book "The Wages of Whiteness," and explores Roediger's idea of the origins of racism and the psychological wage theory of the working class. The author discusses the fact that the antebellum period is notable for the its divisions between the early industrial age in the North and the rural economy of the South which make it difficult to define what constitutes working or middle classes during the time.
- Subjects
UNITED States; ACADEMIC debating; HISTORIOGRAPHY; ANTEBELLUM Period (U.S.); LAURIE, Bruce; WAGES of Whiteness, The (Book); ROEDIGER, David; HISTORY of racism; SOCIAL classes
- Publication
Labor: Studies in Working Class History of the Americas, 2008, Vol 5, Issue 4, p57
- ISSN
1547-6715
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1215/15476715-2008-025