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Labour struggles in Southern Africa, 1919-1949 : new perspectives on the Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union (ICU)
- 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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- Description
- xix, 286 pages : map; 23 cm
- 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 261-277) 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 -- 2. The rabble-rouser: Robert Sambo's ICU stint in Rhodesia -- 3. Organising the unorganised: ICU internationalism and the transnational unionisation of migrant workers -- Section B: Local and Regional Histories of the ICU. 4. The ICU in Free State dorps and dorpies -- 5. The ICU and local politics: Kroonstad, from the late 1920s to the 1930s -- 6. Trouble brewing: the ICU, the 1925 Bloemfontein riots and the women question -- 7. The ICU in the Western Transvaal, 1926-1934: re-imagining ideological, spatial and political realities -- 8. The ICU in Port-Elizabeth: the making of a union-cum-protest movement, 1920-1931 -- 9. 'Home truths' and the political discourse of the ICU -- 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 -- 11. The Community Party of South Africa and the ICU, 1923-1931 -- 12. Illusion and disillusion: white women and the ICU -- 13. The romance and the tragedy of the ICU.
- ISBN
- 9780796926418
- 0796926417
- OCLC
- on1368275369
- SCSB-14589201
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library