Beschreibung:
Elizabeth D. Esch is Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Kansas. She is the coauthor, with David Roediger, of The Production of Difference: Race and the Management of Labor in US History.
"Indispensable as a case study of one multinational corporation's construction of social identities in very different countries and contexts, The Color Line and the Assembly Line also presents an exemplary, original, and generative model for analyzing how racial capitalism requires a complex interplay of sameness and difference for the purposes of both capital accumulation and ideological legitimation."--George Lipsitz, author of How Racism Takes Place