Download or read book Manufacturing Militance written by Gay W. Seidman and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging prevailing theories of development and labor, Gay Seidman's controversial study explores how highly politicized labor movements could arise simultaneously in Brazil and South Africa, two starkly different societies. Beginning with the 1960s, Seidman shows how both authoritarian states promoted specific rapid-industrialization strategies, in the process reshaping the working class and altering relationships between business and the state. When economic growth slowed in the 1970s, workers in these countries challenged social and political repression; by the mid-1980s, they had become major voices in the transition from authoritarian rule. Based in factories and working-class communities, these movements enjoyed broad support as they fought for improved social services, land reform, expanding electoral participation, and racial integration. In Brazil, Seidman takes us from the shopfloor, where disenfranchized workers organized for better wages and working conditions, to the strikes and protests that spread to local communities. Similar demands for radical change emerged in South Africa, where community groups in black townships joined organized labor in a challenge to minority rule that linked class consciousness to racial oppression. Seidman details the complex dynamics of these militant movements and develops a broad analysis of how newly industrializing countries shape the opportunities for labor to express demands. Her work will be welcomed by those interested in labor studies, social theory, and the politics of newly industrializing regions.

Download or read book Power written by Denis MacShane and published by South End Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on research and interviews with workers and union leaders in South Africa, this book examines and analyses the the history of the black working class struggle, its achievements, its internal differences, its politics and international links.

Download or read book The UDF written by Jeremy Seekings and published by New Africa Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the organization that was central to South Africa's transition to democracy. Highly acclaimed by Professor Gail Gerhart, this scholarly study should be a useful tool to anybody interested in the history of the UDF.

Download or read book Research Report written by Nordiska Afrikainstitutet and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Sub Saharan Africa Report written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Report written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Labour Action Organization 1981 written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Metal that Will not Bend written by Kally Forrest and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 761 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1980s there was a surge of trade union power in South Africa. The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) was prominent and innovative in this assertion of muscle.Metal that does not Bend traces Numsa’s accumulation, from a few small unions in a handful of factories to the staging of national strikes involving thousands of workers in auto and engineering. It examines how the union used its influence in macroeconomic and political arenas. Numsa was Cosatu’s most radical socialist affiliate, and the book explores its attempts to implement its vision. Historians have framed apartheid’s downfall as resulting from the activities of the exiled liberation movement, global anti-apartheid boycott strategies and internal township insurrection. This book reasserts the critical role of the internal labour movement.

Download or read book Facts Reports written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Press cuttings on Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, Portugal, & Southern Africa.

Download or read book Special Report of the Director General on the Application of the Declaration Concerning the Policy of apartheid of the Republic of South Africa written by International Labour Office and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 1070 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Treasurer s Report on South African Investments June 1985 written by University of California (System). Office of the Treasurer and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Precarious Liberation written by Franco Barchiesi and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the relationship of precarious employment to state policies on citizenship and social inclusion in the context of postapartheid South Africa.

Download or read book Azania Frontline written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Sweden and National Liberation in Southern Africa written by Tor Sellström and published by Nordic Africa Institute. This book was released on 1999 with total page 920 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1969, the Swedish parliament endorsed a policy of direct assistance to the liberation movements in Southern Africa. Sweden thus became the first Western country to enter into a relationship with organizations that elsewhere in the West were shunned as "Communist" or "terrorist." This book-the first in a two-volume study on Sweden & the regional struggles for majority rule & national independence-traces the background to the relationship. Presenting the actors & factors behind the support to MPLA of Angola, FRELIMO of Mozambique, SWAPO of Namibia, ZANU & ZAPU of Zimbabwe, & ANC of South Africa, it addresses the question why Sweden established close relations with the very movements that eventually would assume state power in their respective countries. The second volume (later this year) will discuss how the support was expressed, covering the period from 1970 until the democratic elections in South Africa in 1994.

Download or read book Conference Papers written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Imperialism Or Solidarity written by Roger Southall and published by University of Cape Town Press (ZA). This book was released on 1995 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyses foreign trade union activities in Southern Africa from 1970 onwards.