Yours for the Union: Class and Community Struggles in South Africa

ISBN-13: 9781783609840 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 264 str.

Baruch Hirson;Tom Lodge

Opis

Yours for the Unionstands as a landmark history of the making of the black working class in South Africa. Drawing on a wide range of sources, it covers the crucial period between 1930 and 1947, when South Africa's rapid industrialization led to the dramatic growth of the working class, and uncontrolled urbanization resulted in the creation of vast shanty towns that became a focal point for resistance and protest.
Renowned scholar and activist Baruch Hirson was one of the first historians to go beyond the traditional focus on the mines and factory workplaces, broadening his account to include the lesser known community struggles of the urban ghettoes and rural reserves. Drawing on Hirson s first-hand involvement in South African labor struggles, Yours for the Union broke new ground with its account of the effort to mobilize urban squatters, domestic workers, and rural peasants, and it remains indispensable today as a resource for the study of the South African labor movement.
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Spis treści

Foreword by Tom Lodge Preface 1. The African Worker: Class and Community 2. Desperately Lean Times: The Socio-economic Background 3. Industrial Legislation and Minimum Wages 4. Rebuilding the African Unions, 1932-40 5. Organising Domestic Servants 6. Vereeniging: 'To Hell with the Pick-up!' 7. The Politics of War and the Black Working Class 8. Trade Unions in Strnggle 9. Organising Under War Conditions 10. Rural Protest and Rural Revolt 11. Azikwhelwa! - We Shall Not Ride 12. Umagebule - The Slicer 13. Organising the Migrant Workers 14. The 1946 Miners' Strike 15. Conclusion