Re: [Marxism] Was there ever a movement of "the 'white' U.S.working class"?

["Joaquin Bustelo" <jbustelo@xxxxxxxxx>]

Alan Bradley writes: "One of the effects of the White Australia Policy was
to ensure that the *only* possible working class movement in Australia for
most of the 20th Century was that of the 'white' working class. The 'other'
sections of the working class were tiny and marginalised. But even in this
horrible context, a working class movement clearly existed." 

Thanks, Alan, for your response, which provokes a further question: was what
is considered a "white" working class stratified in some sense, either by
ethnicity, or date of arrival, or native versus immigrant, or which part of
the British isles they were identified with
(Ireland/Scotland/Wales/England)? Was it simply, in terms of
ethnicity/immigration, one homogeneous mass? Or were there stratifications,
which in the U.S. context we might call "degrees of whiteness," even though
in Oz it would not occur to you to think of it in those racialized terms,
understanding social hierarchies to have multiple axis, not just one (race).

Joaquin


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