“We’re our own boss”: Gendered class-consciousness and white privilege among hooper’s island crab pickers

Anthropology of Work Review

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-13

  Feltault, Kelly ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chesapeake; Class; Crab pickers; Gender; Political economy; Whiteness

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955941470     PISSN: 0883024X     EISSN: 15481417     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/awr.2005.26.1.1     Document Type: Article

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