Smoke and the Spoils

“John Hultgren traces the historical construction of the white US worker as the antithesis to environmentalism, reveals cracks emerging in this narrative, and provides an indispensable guide for working-class organization against these projects of ecological destruction—not least as the new Trump era unfolds.”
—Andreas Malm, Associate Professor, Department of Human Geography, Lund University; author of How to Blow Up a Pipeline and coauthor of White Skin, Black Fuel: On the Danger of Fossil Fascism

“Hultgren provides much needed clarity for understanding how American anti-environmentalism emerged and how it is sustained through appeals to the working classes and offers vital tools for confronting this phenomenon. A monumental achievement.”
—David N. Pellow, Dehlsen Professor of Environmental Studies and Director of the Global Environmental Justice Project, UC Santa Barbara

“Historically rich, theoretically sophisticated, and all too timely, The Smoke and the Spoils is a revelatory account of both environmental and labor politics that recasts the relationship between class, nature, and capitalism.”
—Alyssa Battistoni, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Barnard College, Columbia University; coauthor of A Planet to Win

John Hultgren is a Faculty Member in Environmental Politics at Bennington College in Vermont. He is the author of Border Walls Gone Green- Nature and Anti-immigrant Politics in America.

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