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