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Labour Struggles in Southern Africa, 1919-1949: New Perspectives on the Industrial and Commercial Workers'' Union (ICU)

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By (author): David Johnson Lucien van der Walt Noor Nieftagodien

Thirteen original chapters by major scholars examine different aspects of the ICU's record in the 1920s and 1930s, assessing its achievements and its failures in relation to the post-apartheid present. In its syndicalist One Big Union approach to protecting workers' rights; its emphasis on economic freedoms; its internationalism; and its robust protection of women and migrant workers, the ICU challenged fundamentally the axioms, tactics, and programmes of rival organisations like the African National Congress. More than simply an exercise in excavating a crucial chapter in struggle history, this volume demonstrates that the traditions and legacies of the ICU are of great relevance to contemporary Southern Africa. See more
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  • Weight: 168g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 30 Jun 2023
  • Publisher: HSRC Press
  • Publication City/Country: South Africa
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780796926418

About David JohnsonLucien van der WaltNoor Nieftagodien

David Johnson is Professor of Literature in the Department of English and Creative Writing at The Open University. He is the author of Shakespeare and South Africa (Clarendon Press 1996) Imagining the Cape Colony: History Literature and the South African Nation (Edinburgh University/ UCT Press 2012) and Dreaming of Freedom in South Africa: Literature between Critique and Utopia (Edinburgh University/ UCT Press 2019); the principal author of Jurisprudence: A South African Perspective (Butterworths 2001); the co-editor of A Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures in English (Edinburgh UP 2008) The Book in Africa: Critical Debates (Palgrave 2015). Stuart Hood: Twentieth-Century Partisan (Cambridge Scholars 2021) and 'I See You!' The Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union of Africa 1919-1930 (HiPSA 2022). He is the General Editor of the Edinburgh UP series Key Texts in Anti-Colonial Thought.

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