Analysis Of Attaway's Blood On The Forge

Attaway’s narrative eventually suggests that, under industrial capitalism, the biotic violence done to the earth is replicated at the ideological level as racial clash, with labor serving as the mediating factor. Whether performed by animals, humans, or machines, labor is a material process that, in Blood on the Forge, separates the earth through the appropriation of natural resources. Likewise, race divides labor through management’s (e.g. Carnegie Steel’s) divide-and-conquer policies of exploiting racial differences and