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