The African National Congress (ANC) is the oldest and most durable of African nationalist movements, not only in South Africa but also across the continent. Since 1994, it has governed the country as leader of the Tripartite Alliance with the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) and South African Communist Party (SACP). The early decades of the twentieth century saw the establishment, survival, and growth of ANC and black labour organisations.
This book focuses on the formative period of engagement of these political and socioeconomic forces before permanent alliances emerged. It analyses the ANC’s attitudes and relationships with the nascent formations of the black working class, with particular attention to the most conscious and active workers. The subject matter in this book also discusses migrant, rural, domestic, and women workers – not always then clearly defined as part of a formal ‘working class’.
Print editions not for sale in Sub-Saharan Africa. This book is part of Routledge’s co-published series 30 Years of Democracy in South Africa, in collaboration with UNISA Press, which reflects on the past years of a democratic South Africa and assesses the future opportunities and challenges.
By:
Peter Limb PhD
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 246mm,
Width: 174mm,
Weight: 1.280kg
ISBN: 9781032957746
ISBN 10: 1032957743
Series: 30 Years of Democracy in South Africa
Pages: 592
Publication Date: 02 December 2024
Audience:
General/trade
,
ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Abbreviations and Acronyms Illustrations Sources of illustrations Tables Preface 1. Introduction Part 1: Nation, Class, and Place in South African History 2. Perspectives on ANC-Labour History 3. Black Labour in South Africa to 1940 4. Early African Political Organisations and Black Labour Part 2: The ANC and Labour, the First Decade 5. The SANNC and African Working People 6. To “Heartily … Assist the Working Movement as Best They Can”: Congress and Black Labour in the Transvaal, 1912-1919 7. “Join Our Union—You Will Find Good Result”: Congress and Labour in the Cape, Natal and Free State, 1912–1919 Part 3: The Second Decade 8. “A Strong Seed in a Stony Bed”: The 1920s 9. “The Ruling Class is Getting Lost in the Mist and Sea of Selfishness”: Natal in the 1920s Chapter 10 “I-Kongilesi Lilizwi ezindlwini” (Congress’s Name is Household): The Transvaal, Cape and Orange Free State in the 1920s Part 4: The Third Decade 11. From “Culpable Inertia” to Rebuilding: The ANC and Labour in the 1930s 12. Moderate Centre, Militant Province? The Cape in the 1930s 13. “A Very, Very Wide Influence, Even When … Dead”: The Transvaal, Natal, and Orange Free State in the 1930s Conclusion Select Bibliography Index
