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Yours for the Union
Class and Community Struggles in South Africa
Yours for the Union
Class and Community Struggles in South Africa
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Yours for the Union stands 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 of 1930–47, when South Africa's rapid industrialisation led to the dramatic growth of the working class, and uncontrolled urbanisation resulted in vast shanty towns which became a focal point for resistance and protest. Importantly, 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.
Written by an author with first-hand involvement in South African labour struggles, Yours for the Union broke new ground with its account of the effort to mobilise urban squatters, domestic workers and rural peasants, and remains an indispensable resource for the study of the South African labour movement.
Table of Contents
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
Product details
| Published | Feb 15 2017 |
|---|---|
| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 2nd |
| Extent | 264 |
| ISBN | 9781783609840 |
| Imprint | Zed Books |
| Illustrations | Halftones, black and white 21 ; Maps 1 |
| Dimensions | 9 x 5 inches |
| Series | African History Archive |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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