Similarities Between Roediger's White Artisans And The Solidarity Of Race

The term “white slavery” which started to emerge in the early 1830s brings about a sense of the powerlessness that the white worker felt when it came to the control of their labor. And for the next two decades this term, rather than create the feeling of solidarity among white workers and black slaves, it was more of a call to arms for the white worker to rise and end the oppression they felt at the workplace . This oppression emanates from continued push by factory owners for the 10-hour day, and the alienation of the labor that was once considered prestigious being succumbed to a task system, which workers attempted to fight back by unionizing to strike in protest to fight this form of treatment. However, they were outdone by their employers every step of the way. Thus, white workers during this time as Roediger argues in his document, “White Artisans and the Solidarity of Race” were fighting an uphill battle under the wrong label, as labeling themselves as white slaves did not address the themes of wage, or labor but rather one of self-degradation, which stalled progress for white workers employed under the system they were trying to fight. White workers beginning during
Needless to say, this isn’t the same instance, nor the same circumstance. However, white workers are getting riled up, and the use of the term white slavery starts being thrown around, not in a form of solidarity and understand toward the black slaves by white workers, because white workers felt that their work life was being degraded. But rather the term white slavery started to be used as form of resistance by white workers to fight take up in arms and fight back against their