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These views wove together managerial strategies and white supremacy not only ideologically but practically, every day at workplaces. Even in factories governed by scientific management, the impulse to play races against each other, and to slot workers into jobs categorized by race, constituted powerful management tools used to enforce discipline, lower wages, keep workers on dangerous jobs, and undermine solidarity.\n Painstakingly researched and brilliantly argued, The Production of Difference will revolutionize the history of labor and race in the United States.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52348316942609,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52348317663505,"sku":"NLS9780199739752","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780199739752.jpg?v=1786441739"},{"product_id":"our-own-time-book-david-r-roediger-9780313260629","title":"Our Own Time","description":"Combining the narrative and trade union emphasis of traditional labor history with the focus on culture and the labor process characteristic of contemporary labor history, the book offers an illuminating reinterpretation of the history of the U.S. labor movement from the colonial period onward.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52402302288145,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52402303140113,"sku":"NLS9780313260629","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780313260629.jpg?v=1758757266"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/collections\/author-books-by-david-r-roediger.oembed?page=2","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}