The racialized picket line: White workers and racism in the Southern California supermarket strike

Critical Sociology

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 349-367

  Wilson, Jake B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Labor; Masculinity; Racism; Union organizing; White privilege; Whiteness

Indexed keywords

EID: 41049111424     PISSN: 08969205     EISSN: 15691632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0896920507088163     Document Type: Article

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