Industrialisation And Trade Union Organization In South Africa 1924 1955

Author : Jon Lewis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521317584

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Industrialisation and Trade Union Organization in South Africa, 1924-1955 by Jon Lewis Pdf

This major 1984 study of South African trade unionism traces the history of the South African Trades and Labour Council (TLC) from its origins in the 1920s to its demise in the early 1950s. The book focuses on South Africa's secondary industrialisation and subsequent changes in work organization. By analysing trade union structures and strategies Dr Lewis shows how divisions within the labour movement were bound up with the development of production processes and the division of labour, rather than being the inevitable outcome of racial antagonisms. The early chapters analyse the emergence of different trade union strategies. As work processes were transformed by the rapid industrialisation of the 1940s, the traditional craftsmen lost their technical indispensability and increasingly performed supervisory functions. Faced with dilution and undercutting, and increasingly hostile to the majority of black production workers, the craft unions responded by redefining membership on the basis of race rather than skill.

Author : Jon Lewis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1984-11-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521263123

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Industrialisation and Trade Union Organization in South Africa, 1924-1955 by Jon Lewis Pdf

The history of the TLC from its origins in the 1920s to its demise in the 1950s.

Author : Sjaak van der Velden
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 603 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781538134610

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Historical Dictionary of Organized Labor by Sjaak van der Velden Pdf

From the start of its existence organized labor has been the voice of workers to improve their economic, social, and political positions. Beginning with small and very often illegal groups of involved workers it grew to the million member organizations that now exist around the globe. It is studied from many different perspectives – historical, economic, sociological, and legal – but it fundamentally involves the struggle for workers’ rights, human rights and social justice. In an often hostile environment, organized labor has tried to make the world a fairer place. Even though it has only ever covered a minority of employees in most countries, its effects on their political, economic, and social systems have been generally positive. Despite growing repression of organized labor in recent years, membership numbers are still growing for the benefit of all employees, including the non-members. Historical Dictionary of Organized Labor: Fourth Edition makes the history of this important feature of life easily accessible. The reader is guided through a chronology, an introductory essay, 600 entries on the subject, appendixes with statistical material, and an extensive bibliography including Internet sites. This book gives a thorough introduction into past and present for historians, economists, sociologists, journalists, activists, labor union leaders, and anyone interested in the development of this important issue.

Author : James C. Docherty
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780810861961

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Historical Dictionary of Organized Labor by James C. Docherty Pdf

Organized labor is about the collective efforts of employees to improve their economic, social, and political position. It can be studied from many different points of view—historical, economic, sociological, or legal—but it is fundamentally about the struggle for human rights and social justice. As a rule, organized labor has tried to make the world a fairer place. Even though it has only ever covered a minority of employees in most countries, its effects on their political, economic, and social systems have been generally positive. History shows that when organized labor is repressed, the whole society suffers and is made less just. The Historical Dictionary of Organized Labor looks at the history of organized labor to see where it came from and where it has been. This is done through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, a glossary of terms, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 400 cross-referenced entries on most countries, international as well as national labor organizations, major labor unions, leaders, and other aspects of organized labor such as changes in the composition of its membership. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about organized labor.

Author : Katherine Luongo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139503457

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Witchcraft and Colonial Rule in Kenya, 1900–1955 by Katherine Luongo Pdf

Focusing on colonial Kenya, this book shows how conflicts between state authorities and Africans over witchcraft-related crimes provided an important space in which the meanings of justice, law and order in the empire were debated. Katherine Luongo discusses the emergence of imperial networks of knowledge about witchcraft. She then demonstrates how colonial concerns about witchcraft produced an elaborate body of jurisprudence about capital crimes. The book analyzes the legal wrangling that produced the Witchcraft Ordinances in the 1910s, the birth of an anthro-administrative complex surrounding witchcraft in the 1920s, the hotly contested Wakamba Witch Trials of the 1930s, the explosive growth of legal opinion on witch-murder in the 1940s, and the unprecedented state-sponsored cleansings of witches and Mau Mau adherents during the 1950s. A work of anthropological history, this book develops an ethnography of Kamba witchcraft or uoi.

Author : Philip Mirowski,Dieter Plehwe
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780674088344

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The Road from Mont Pèlerin by Philip Mirowski,Dieter Plehwe Pdf

What exactly is neoliberalism, and where did it come from? This volume attempts to answer these questions by exploring neoliberalism’s origins and growth as a political and economic movement. Now with a new preface.

Author : Peter Claus Wolfgang Gutkind
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9004087885

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Third Worlds Workers by Peter Claus Wolfgang Gutkind Pdf

Author : Christian A. Williams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107099340

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National Liberation in Post-Colonial Southern Africa by Christian A. Williams Pdf

Williams traces the South West Africa People's Organization of Namibia across three decades in exile in Tanzania, Zambia, and Angola.

Author : Robert Ross
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107042490

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The Borders of Race in Colonial South Africa by Robert Ross Pdf

This is the detailed narrative of the Kat River Settlement, which was located on the border between the Cape Colony and the amaXhosa in the Eastern Cape of South Africa during the nineteenth century. The settlement created a fertile landscape in the valley and developed a political theology of great political and racial importance to the evolution of the Cape and of South Africa as a whole.

Author : Toby Green
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139503587

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The Rise of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade in Western Africa, 1300–1589 by Toby Green Pdf

The region between the river Senegal and Sierra Leone saw the first trans-Atlantic slave trade in the sixteenth century. Drawing on many new sources, Toby Green challenges current quantitative approaches to the history of the slave trade. New data on slave origins can show how and why Western African societies responded to Atlantic pressures. Green argues that answering these questions requires a cultural framework and uses the idea of creolization - the formation of mixed cultural communities in the era of plantation societies - to argue that preceding social patterns in both Africa and Europe were crucial. Major impacts of the sixteenth-century slave trade included political fragmentation, changes in identity and the re-organization of ritual and social patterns. The book shows which peoples were enslaved, why they were vulnerable and the consequences in Africa and beyond.

Author : Katharina P. W. Döring
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2023-10-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781009362245

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African Military Politics in the Sahel by Katharina P. W. Döring Pdf

Analyzes the politics around military deployments in the Sahel since 2012 from a critical geopolitics perspective.

Author : Derek R. Peterson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107021167

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Ethnic Patriotism and the East African Revival by Derek R. Peterson Pdf

This book shows how cosmopolitan Christian converts and east African patriots struggled to define political community in the mid-twentieth century. Derek Peterson traces the history of the East African Revival, an evangelical movement that challenged patriots' effort to root people in place as inheritors of a cultural heritage.

Author : Gregory Mann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107016545

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From Empires to NGOs in the West African Sahel by Gregory Mann Pdf

This book explains the shift from the government of empires to that of NGOs in the region just south of the Sahara. It describes the ambitions of newly independent African states, their political experiments, and the challenges they faced. No other book places black American activism, Amnesty International, and CARE together in the history of African politics.

Author : Jonathan Fisher
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108494274

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East Africa after Liberation by Jonathan Fisher Pdf

A novel, far-reaching analysis of contemporary history and politics in East Africa, focusing on the crisis in the region's postcolonial political order.

Author : Alden Young
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107172494

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Transforming Sudan by Alden Young Pdf

This book traces the formation of the Sudanese state following the Second World War through a developmentalist ideology.