This article is a contribution to and reassessment of the debate about the concept of ‘white labourism’ hosted in this journal in 2010. White labourism is a concept formulated by Jonathan Hyslop to describe an ideology combining an anti-capitalist critique with racial segregation that he argued was dominant in a transnational white working class in the British Empire in the early twentieth century. The debate about this concept has focused on the appeal and extent of this ideology in South Africa during the early twentieth century. In light of recent scholarship on Southern Africa, we take a longer-term perspective to critically examine the concept and the debate. Specifically, we make three interventions into this debate: we consider the role of white workers outside British imperial networks; we examine how radical and revolutionary ideas disappeared from white-working class politics in the mid-twentieth century; and we reassess the connection between transnational flows of people and ideas. Racial divisions in the working class and labour movement in Southern Africa were persistent and enduring. We argue that racial segregation had an enduring appeal to white workers in Southern Africa, and the sources of this appeal were more varied and locally rooted than simply transnational migration to the region.

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重温白人劳工主义：关于 20 世纪南部非洲工人阶级白人身份的新辩论

这篇文章是对 2010 年在本期刊上举办的关于“白人劳工主义”概念的辩论的贡献和重新评估。白人劳工主义是乔纳森·海斯洛普（Jonathan Hyslop）提出的一个概念，用于描述一种将反资本主义批评与种族隔离相结合的意识形态，他认为在 20 世纪初的大英帝国，他在跨国白人工人阶级中占主导地位。关于这一概念的辩论集中在二十世纪初这种意识形态在南非的吸引力和范围上。鉴于最近关于南部非洲的学术研究，我们从长远的角度来批判性地研究这个概念和辩论。具体来说，我们对这场辩论进行了三项干预：我们考虑白人工人在英帝国网络之外的角色；我们研究了激进和革命思想是如何在 20 世纪中叶从白人工人阶级政治中消失的；我们重新评估了跨国人员流动和思想之间的联系。南部非洲工人阶级和劳工运动中的种族分裂是持久而持久的。我们认为，种族隔离对南部非洲的白人工人有着持久的吸引力，而这种吸引力的来源比简单的跨国移民到该地区更加多样化和扎根于当地。