Threads of solidarity : women in South African industry, 1900-1980
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Threads of solidarity : women in South African industry, 1900-1980
Indiana University Press , James Currey, c1992
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-357) and index
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Description
.."". enables us to deepen our understanding of the organization of working women.""A -- International Journal of African Historical Studies
.."". an impressive piece of scholarship."" -- American Journal of Sociology
Virtually ignored by labor historians are the black and white women in South African industries. Drawing on comparative labor history and feminist theory, this important study traces the history of women as industrial workers and trade unionists in South Africa during most of the twentieth century.
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Table of Contents
- Part I - gender industrialization: gender, community and working-class history
- dependency and domesticity - women's wage labour, 1900-1925. Part II - women in the new industrial unions: patterns of women's labour, 1925-1940
- daughters of the depression
- commandos of working women
- a lengthening thread. Part II - a new working class and the challenge of diversity: nimble fingers and keen eyesight - women in wartime production
- a new working class, 1940-1960
- a solidarity fragmented - garment workers in the Transvaal
- food and canning workers in the Cape - the structure of gender and race
- standing united
- never far from home - family, community and working women. Part IV - decentralization and the rise of independent unions: city and periphery, 1960-1980
- repression and resistance.
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: Currey ISBN 9780852550786
Table of Contents
- Part I - gender industrialization: gender, community and working-class history
- dependency and domesticity - women's wage labour, 1900-1925. Part II - women in the new industrial unions: patterns of women's labour, 1925-1940
- daughters of the depression
- commandos of working women
- a lengthening thread. Part II - a new working class and the challenge of diversity: nimble fingers and keen eyesight - women in wartime production
- a new working class, 1940-1960
- a solidarity fragmented - garment workers in the Transvaal
- food and canning workers in the Cape - the structure of gender and race
- standing united
- never far from home - family, community and working women. Part IV - decentralization and the rise of independent unions: city and periphery, 1960-1980
- repression and resistance.
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