By the end of the 1980s, the independent trade union movement in South Africa consolidated what Adler and Webster call radical reform as a trade union strategy: building socialism using "legal means of struggle" and policy engagement through structures like NEDLAC. Labour set out to influence both the democratic transition and the shape of post apartheid South Africa. This book examines the limits, successes and failures of this strategy through a case study of the Chemical Workers Industrial Union (CWIU, 1987-1999). Drawing on original research and a wide literature on debates over trade...