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Bringing Political Economy Back In

Gender, Culture, Race, and Class in Labor History

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 January 2016

Laura L. Frader
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As other contributors to this roundtable suggest, the practices of social and labor history as we have known them have been in methodological and epistemological turmoil for some time. The dominant paradigms that guided much of the work of social historians in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s have been thrown into question by poststructuralism and by the emergence of new analytical perspectives on gender, race, and ethnicities. Attention to culture and to the meanings that historical subjects imposed on the habits of everyday life, as well as to the constitutive power of language and cultural practices, have now become a central aspect of much historical work that has sought to analyze the operations of gender, race, and ethnicities as the subjects of social history and the history of working people in particular.

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A Roundtable on Gender, Race, Class, Culture, and Politics: Where Do We Go from Here?
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Social Science History , Volume 22 , Issue 1 , Spring 1998 , pp. 7 - 18
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Copyright © Social Science History Association 1998

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