Citizenship And Labor Evelyn Ellenn Analysis

Evelyn Glenn argues that race and gender shaped the development of both citizenship and labor in the United States. She explains that citizenship created boundaries of inclusion and exclusion in the sociopolitical order while labor privileged the economic order and determined which groups had access to autonomy, standards of living, and access to goods and services. White masculinity was the norm that maintained these spaces of exclusion and oppression. The shifting requirements of citizenship were influenced by the shifts in labor organization. Anglo men produced commodities outside of the home while women maintained social reproduction in the domestic sphere. As new class formations and conflicts emerged, the increase of a need for wage labor