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Periodical article | Leiden University 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 New evidence has become available: the unpublished autobiography of Clements Kadalie and the recollections of Selby Msimang.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. |