Black Labor Unions in South Africa
Author: Anthony G. Freeman
Publisher:
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 74
ISBN-13:
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Southern Labor and Black Civil Rights
Author: Michael K. Honey
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2023-02-03
Total Pages: 404
ISBN-13: 0252054326
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWidely praised upon publication and now considered a classic study, Southern Labor and Black Civil Rights chronicles the southern industrial union movement from the Great Depression to the Cold War, a history that created the context for the sanitation workers' strike that brought Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to Memphis in April 1968. Michael K. Honey documents the dramatic labor battles and sometimes heroic activities of workers and organizers that helped to set the stage for segregation's demise. Winner of the Charles S. Sydnor Award, given by the Southern Historical Association, 1994. Winner of the James A. Rawley Prize given by the Organization of American Historians, 1994. Winner of the Herbert G. Gutman Award for an outstanding book in American social history.
Civil Rights Unionism
Author: Robert R. Korstad
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2003-11-20
Total Pages: 571
ISBN-13: 0807862525
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDrawing on scores of interviews with black and white tobacco workers in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Robert Korstad brings to life the forgotten heroes of Local 22 of the Food, Tobacco, Agricultural and Allied Workers of America-CIO. These workers confronted a system of racial capitalism that consigned African Americans to the basest jobs in the industry, perpetuated low wages for all southerners, and shored up white supremacy. Galvanized by the emergence of the CIO, African Americans took the lead in a campaign that saw a strong labor movement and the reenfranchisement of the southern poor as keys to reforming the South--and a reformed South as central to the survival and expansion of the New Deal. In the window of opportunity opened by World War II, they blurred the boundaries between home and work as they linked civil rights and labor rights in a bid for justice at work and in the public sphere. But civil rights unionism foundered in the maelstrom of the Cold War. Its defeat undermined later efforts by civil rights activists to raise issues of economic equality to the moral high ground occupied by the fight against legalized segregation and, Korstad contends, constrains the prospects for justice and democracy today.
Trade Unionism in South Africa
Author: Trades Union Congress
Publisher:
Published: 1974
Total Pages: 48
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKWobblies of the World
Author: Peter Cole
Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780745399607
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA history of the global nature of the radical union, The Industrial Workers of the World
The Wiehahn Commission
Author: University of Cape Town. Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit
Publisher: Saldru Division of Research S
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 60
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKWorking paper reviewing recommendations and commentary on the wiehahn commission concerning labour legislation and labour relations in South Africa R - comprises attitudes of trade unions, industrial enterprise and chamber of commerce, etc., relating to freedom of association, control of unions, vocational training and job reservation for Black Africans, etc. ILO mentioned.
To ’Joy My Freedom
Author: Tera W. Hunter
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1997-05-20
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9780674893092
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs the Civil War drew to a close, newly emancipated black women workers made their way to Atlanta—the economic hub of the newly emerging urban and industrial south—in order to build an independent and free life on the rubble of their enslaved past. In an original and dramatic work of scholarship, Tera Hunter traces their lives in the postbellum era and reveals the centrality of their labors to the African-American struggle for freedom and justice. Household laborers and washerwomen were constrained by their employers’ domestic worlds but constructed their own world of work, play, negotiation, resistance, and community organization. Hunter follows African-American working women from their newfound optimism and hope at the end of the Civil War to their struggles as free domestic laborers in the homes of their former masters. We witness their drive as they build neighborhoods and networks and their energy as they enjoy leisure hours in dance halls and clubs. We learn of their militance and the way they resisted efforts to keep them economically depressed and medically victimized. Finally, we understand the despair and defeat provoked by Jim Crow laws and segregation and how they spurred large numbers of black laboring women to migrate north. Hunter weaves a rich and diverse tapestry of the culture and experience of black women workers in the post–Civil War south. Through anecdote and data, analysis and interpretation, she manages to penetrate African-American life and labor and to reveal the centrality of women at the inception—and at the heart—of the new south.
General Labour History of Africa
Author: Stefano Bellucci
Publisher:
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 784
ISBN-13: 1847012183
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first comprehensive and authoritative history of work and labour in Africa; a key text for all working on African Studies and Labour History worldwide.
Black Consciousness in South Africa
Author: Robert Fatton
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 1986-01-15
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9780887061295
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBlack Consciousness in South Africa provides a new perspective on black politics in South Africa. It demonstrates and assesses critically the radical character and aspirations of African resistance to white minority rule. Robert Fatton analyzes the development and radicalization of South Africas Black Consciousness Movement from its inception in the late 1960s to its banning in 1977. He rejects the widely accepted interpretation of the Black Consciousness Movement as an exclusively cultural and racial expression of African resistance to racism. Instead Fatton argues that over the course of its existence, the Movement developed a revolutionary ideology capable of challenging the cultural and political hegemony of apartheid. The Black Consciousness Movement came to be a synthesis of class awareness and black cultural assertiveness. It represented the ethico-political weapon of an oppressed class struggling to reaffirm its humanity through active participation in the demise of a racist and capitalist system.
Black Reconstruction in America
Author: W. E. B. Du Bois
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Published: 2013-05-06
Total Pages: 686
ISBN-13: 1412846676
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfter four centuries of bondage, the nineteenth century marked the long-awaited release of millions of black slaves. Subsequently, these former slaves attempted to reconstruct the basis of American democracy. W. E. B. Du Bois, one of the greatest intellectual leaders in United States history, evaluates the twenty years of fateful history that followed the Civil War, with special reference to the efforts and experiences of African Americans. Du Bois’s words best indicate the broader parameters of his work: "the attitude of any person toward this book will be distinctly influenced by his theories of the Negro race. If he believes that the Negro in America and in general is an average and ordinary human being, who under given environment develops like other human beings, then he will read this story and judge it by the facts adduced." The plight of the white working class throughout the world is directly traceable to American slavery, on which modern commerce and industry was founded, Du Bois argues. Moreover, the resulting color caste was adopted, forwarded, and approved by white labor, and resulted in the subordination of colored labor throughout the world. As a result, the majority of the world’s laborers became part of a system of industry that destroyed democracy and led to World War I and the Great Depression. This book tells that story.
