Capital initially opposed job color bars but capitulated to white worker pressure and racism

Evidence

British capital, local Randlords, and colonial administrators thus sought initially to maximize the labor pool more or less no matter color so as to undercut wage costs of both skilled and unskilled white labor. Boer political representatives, by contrast, sought to ensure job color bars out of a deep entanglement of self-interest and ideological investment. But capital’s representatives soon relented, not only to the pressures of white workers intent on securing self-interest but also to the renewed reassertion of the discourse of inherent inferiority. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1464 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

But with this assertion of mining and manufacturing capital in the wake of the Anglo-Boer War the British in fact cleared the way for elaboration of the logic of a racially driven social order, of an intensified racially predicated political economy. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1484 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Capital abandoned color-blind hiring under white worker pressure — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1464; British mine capital initially preferred color-blind labor markets but capitulated to color bars — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1464; Industrial capital weaponized racism to fragment the labor movement (+10 more)

Broader Connections

• British mine capital initially preferred color-blind labor markets but capitulated to color bars #corroborates (0.97) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1464
• Capital has been deliberately deployed to sustain racial states even against capital’s own interests #complicates (0.82)
• British industrial capital intensified rather than moderated South African racial order #complicates (0.76) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1484
• Industrial capital weaponized racism to fragment the labor movement #complicates (0.75)
• Du Bois saw white labor as co-exploiter alongside capital #complicates (0.73)