Class War, USA: Dispatches from Workers’ Struggles in American History

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Notes

1 http://progressive.org/dispatches/ever-heard-black-wall-street/

2 Huber, Patrick, and Kathleen Drowne. 2001. "Redneck: A New Discovery." American Speech: A Quarterly Of Linguistic Usage 76, no. 4: 434–37. Interestingly, given the current attention to the “return of populism”, this earlier (1891) occurrence happened in the context of a Populist conflict between “the Bourbon Democrats, mostly wealthy Delta planters and business leaders … and the small planters and land-holding farmers [who] had joined the Southern Farmer’s Alliance” (435). Weber is right to the extent that the word has a politically relevant historical story to tell and an origin in class struggle.

3 “Them and Us”, in this sense, is also the title of a radical US labor history classic whose relevance is worth rediscovery today: Matles, James J., and James Higgins. Them and Us: Struggles of a Rank-and-file Union. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1975.