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Periodical article Periodical article Leiden University catalogue Leiden University catalogue WorldCat catalogue WorldCat
Title:The Birth of Non-White Trade Unionism in South Africa
Author:Johns, Sheridan W.
Year:1967
Periodical:Race
Volume:9
Period:October
Pages:175-192
Language:English
Geographic term:South Africa
Subjects:black trade unions
Labor and Employment
Abstract:'Time longer than rope' by Edward Boux is the most thorough analysis of the Industrial and Workers' Commercial Union of Africa(ICU), the first powerful non-white trade union in South Africa, but only begins to probe the development of the ICU and its significance in the history of non-white protest in South Africa. New evidence has become available: the unpublished autobiography of Clements Kadalie and the recollections of Selby Msimang. Relating the emergence of the ICU to the economic situation of the non-white workers in South Africa in the first decades of the 20th century, the nature of the process by which the ICU established itself as a national trade union centre for non-white workers is examined more closely in the light of the new evidence. References.
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