These are the ones who say: We must control labor or civilization will fail; we must control white labor in Europe and America; above all, we must control yellow labor in Asia and black labor in Africa and the South, else we shall have no tea, or rubber, or cotton.
Du Bois critiques the justification for controlling labor across different races and regions for economic reasons.
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