Transition from below : forging trade unionism and workplace change in South Africa /
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| Author / Creator: | Von Holdt, K. (Karl) |
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| Imprint: | Pietermartizburg : University of Natal Press, 2003. |
| Description: | xi, 325 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5040170 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Chapter 1. Transition from below: The apartheid workplace, trade unionism and local politics
- Chapter 2. 'A white man's factory in a white man's country': The apartheid workplace regime
- Chapter 3. 'The Messiah comes to Highveld Steel': The apartheid workplace regime and the union challenge
- Chapter 4. 'Fighting everything': Social movement unionism, popular alliances and 'ungovernability' in the community
- Chapter 5. 'It was just chaotic': The apartheid workplace regime, political challenge and 'ungovernability' in the workplace
- Chapter 6. 'Union of the township, union of the hostel': Social movement unionism, contestation and violence among black workers
- Chapter 7. 'Freedom is here, apartheid is finished': NUMSA, transition and the new strategy of reconstruction
- Chapter 8. 'The government is ours': Shop stewards, reconstruction and class formation during the transition in Witbank
- Chapter 9. Fighting for 'the law of freedom': The workplace regime, incorporation and the strategy of reconstruction
- Chapter 10. 'Amabhova revolt against the union': The fragmentation and erosion of worker solidarity
- Chapter 11. 'Today I see myself as a human being because of the union': The future of the workplace, the future of the union
- Bibliography
- Index
