Research Catalog

Title

Labour struggles in Southern Africa, 1919-1949 : new perspectives on the Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union (ICU) / edited by David Johnson, Noor Nieftagodien, Lucien van der Walt.

Publication

Cape Town, South Africa : HSRC Press, 2023.

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Additional Authors

• Johnson, David, 1962 May 20-
• Nieftagodien, Noor
• Van der Walt, Lucien

Description

xix, 286 pages : map; 23 cm

Alternative Title

• Labor struggles in Southern Africa, 1919-1949
• New perspectives on the Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union (ICU)

Subject

• I.C.U. (South Africa) > History
• I.C.U. (South Africa)
• 1900-1999
• Labor disputes > Africa, Southern > History > 20th century
• Labor unions > Africa, Southern > History > 20th century
• Industrial relations > Africa, Southern > History > 20th century
• Industrial relations
• Labor disputes
• Labor unions
• Southern Africa

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 258-277) and index.

Contents

Section A: The ICU in Southern Africa. 1: The ICU, the mines and the state in South West Africa, 1920-1926: Garveyism, syndicalism and global labour history / Lucien van der Walt -- 2. The rabble-rouser: Robert Sambo's ICU stint in Rhodesia / Anusa Daimon -- 3. Organising the unorganised: ICU internationalism and the transnational unionisation of migrant workers / Henry Dee -- Section B: Local and Regional Histories of the ICU. 4. The ICU in Free State dorps and dorpies / Peter Limb and Chitja Twala -- 5. The ICU and local politics: Kroonstad, from the late 1920s to the 1930s / Tshepo Moloi -- 6. Trouble brewing: the ICU, the 1925 Bloemfontein riots and the women question / Nicole Ulrich -- 7. The ICU in the Western Transvaal, 1926-1934: re-imagining ideological, spatial and political realities / Laurence Stewart -- 8. The ICU in Port-Elizabeth: the making of a union-cum-protest movement, 1920-1931 / Noor Nieftagodien -- 9. 'Home truths' and the political discourse of the ICU / Phillip Bonner -- Section C: Factions and legacies of the ICU. 10. Leadership contestations and worker mobilisation in the early years of the twentieth century: Selby Msimang and the ICU, 1919-1921 / Sibongiseni Mkhize -- 11. The Community Party of South Africa and the ICU, 1923-1931 / Tom Lodge -- 12. Illusion and disillusion: white women and the ICU / Elizabeth van Heyningen -- 13. The romance and the tragedy of the ICU / David Johnson.

Call Number

ReCAP 23-8635

ISBN

• 9780796926418
• 0796926417

LCCN

2023418286

OCLC

1368275369

Title

Labour struggles in Southern Africa, 1919-1949 : new perspectives on the Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union (ICU) / edited by David Johnson, Noor Nieftagodien, Lucien van der Walt.

Publisher

Cape Town, South Africa : HSRC Press, 2023.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 258-277) and index.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Added Author

Johnson, David, 1962 May 20- editor.

Nieftagodien, Noor, editor.

Van der Walt, Lucien, editor.

Research Call Number

ReCAP 23-8635