The Imperial Working Class Makes Itself ‘White’: White Labourism in Britain, Australia, and South Africa Before the First World War

Hyslop, Jonathan

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“…I am grateful to anonymous reviewer 3 for encouraging this clarification. 4 See Jonathan Hyslop (1999) for a discussion of the relationships between these movements. 5 There are some notable exceptions, often emerging from communist or syndicalist traditions, but these have remained very limited in scale and were continuously outflanked by their segregationist and exclusionary counterparts.…”

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“…Similar campaigns where waged in both South Africa and Australia against the immigration of Asian workers in the early 20 th century. In fact, the formation of the Australian Labour Party took place on the basis of taking the “white Australia” campaign into parliament (Hyslop 1999; Shafir 1996). Perhaps the most emblematic example of these labour campaigns for the exclusion of racialised workers is that for the colour bar in South Africa (and later for the imposition of Apartheid) by the white workers' movement.…”

Section: An Alternative Reading: Settler Colonies and The Exploitatiomentioning

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Settlers, Workers, and the Logic of Accumulation by Dispossession

Englert

2020

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This article offers a critique of the Wolfe-an model, which has become so dominant within contemporary Settler Colonial Studies (SCS). It focuses particularly on the central claim made by Patrick Wolfe, and others after him, that settler colonialism is categorically differentiated from other forms of colonialism by its drive to "eliminate the native", instead of exploiting them. This paper builds on the literature that shows how settler colonies have used elimination as well as exploitation in their relations with indigenous peoples-even transitioning from one to the other. Instead, the paper argues that focusing on accumulation by dispossession allows for an analysis of the specificity of settler social relations to emerge. It highlights the specific ways in which settlers collectively expropriate indigenous peoples and struggle amongst different settler classes over the distribution of the colonial loot.

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Section: An Alternative Reading: Settler Colonies and The Exploitatiomentioning

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Settlers, Workers, and the Logic of Accumulation by Dispossession

Englert

2020

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“…Paul Griffin's () exploration of Red Clydeside has emphasised the co‐existence of transnational labour solidarity and racism. Drawing on Hyslop's () concept of “white labourism,” such an approach makes it clear that solidarity can entrench hierarchies of power as well as challenge them. A historical approach is essential here.…”

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Historicising geographies of solidarity

Kelliher

2018

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This article evaluates two of the most productive recent areas of research in the historical geographies of solidarity: first, work relating to class and the labour movement; and second, debates clustered around race and colonialism. The two are, of course, not entirely distinct, and there has been much useful thinking at their intersections. I suggest that questions of mobility have been crucial in thinking about the formation of diverse solidarities across geographical and social boundaries. The article looks at how relationships can both be developed across differences of gender, race, and sexuality and how solidarities can be used to entrench forms of oppression and inequities of power. Thinking about this issue through the concept of intersectionality, I argue, would be a useful way of engaging with such questions. I suggest three areas which could be developed further. First, there is potential for a greater engagement with theoretical debates around the nature of solidarity itself. Second, historical geographers could pay more attention to the role of memory and “usable pasts.” Finally, I argue that more ambitious historical narratives, framed within wider social processes, would allow us to make broader arguments about how solidarity develops over time.

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“…As I have argued elsewhere, there was within late nineteenth and early twentieth Century Britain and its settler colonies, a strand of globalized politics which I have called White Labourism. 29 30 On arrival in Durban, the Chinese workers were closely guarded, and moved immediately to a camp at Jacobs on the western side of the harbour, which had been used as a concentration camp in the Boer War. They were then placed on sealed trains, which took them to the Transvaal, where they were largely confined to closed compounds from which they were only allowed out once a week.…”

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The Politics of Disembarkation: Empire, Shipping and Labor in the Port of Durban, 1897–1947

Hyslop

2018

Inter. Labor Working-Class Hist.

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This article examines the labor politics of race in Durban harbor between 1897 and 1947. It approaches the subject from an analysis of labor in a global, and particularly a British Empire, context. The article aims to move away from a solely “national” focus on the South African state and instead to look “up” toward connections to the British Empire, the world economy, and global social and political movements, and “down” towards Durban itself. These large scale (imperial and global) and small scale (city) levels were very concretely connected by Durban's role as a port. This article contends that in order to understand the place of working class Durban in an imperial world, we need to incorporate the shipping industry into other labor histories, studying how the movement of vessels and the actions of seafarers concretely linked these spatial levels. This article provides a broad overview of the sociological “shape” of the Durban working class and focuses on four “moments” of racialized labor in Durban harbor: the riot against M.K. Gandhi in 1897, the British seamen's strike of 1925, the insurgency of black dockworkers in the late 1920s and early 1930s, and the conflicts over the presence of Indian seamen in the port during the Second World War. These events revolved around what is here called a politics of disembarkation, in which the joining of the ship to the world of the shore created a zone of conflict.

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The Imperial Working Class Makes Itself ‘White’: White Labourism in Britain, Australia, and South Africa Before the First World War

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Settlers, Workers, and the Logic of Accumulation by Dispossession

Settlers, Workers, and the Logic of Accumulation by Dispossession

Historicising geographies of solidarity

The Politics of Disembarkation: Empire, Shipping and Labor in the Port of Durban, 1897–1947

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