Abstract
Thorstein Veblen, like W. E. B. DuBois, mobilized the concept of psychological wages to explain working-class identification with the capitalist social and economic system. But while DuBois wrote about the wages of whiteness, Veblen concentrated, instead, upon the symbolic “benefits” provided by American nationalism, arguing that nationalism serves to reunite a community ruptured by inequality. This essay first examines Veblen's theory of nationalism as a form of social solidarity. In the concluding sections, it looks to organized labor for some possible alternative visions of community, politics, and “the people.”
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