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Threads of Solidarity: Women in South African Industry, 1900-1980

by Iris Berger
Threads of Solidarity: Women in South African Industry, 1900-1980

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"... enables us to deepen our understanding of the organization of working women."

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..". enables us to deepen our understanding of the organization of working women."--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.


About the Author

IRIS BERGER is Associate Professor of History, African Studies, and Women's Studies and Director of the Institute for Research on Women at the State University of New York at Albany. She is author of the award-winning book Religion and Resistance: East African Kingdoms in the Precolonial Period and co-editor (with Claire Robertson) of Women and Class in Africa.

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PREFACE

ABBREVIATIONS

I. GENDER AND INDUSTRIALIZATION

1. Gender, Community, and Working-Class History

2. Dependency and Domesticity: Women's Wage Labor, 1900-1925

II. WOMEN IN THE NEW INDUSTRIAL UNIONS

3. Patterns of Women's Labor, 1925-1940

4. Daughters of the Depression

5. Commandos of Working Women

6. A Lengthening Thread

III. A NEW WORKING CLASS AND THE CHALLENGE OF DEVERSITY

7. Nimble Fingers and Keen Eysight: Women in Wartime Production

8. A New Working Class, 1940-1960

9.Solidarity Fragmented: Garment Workers in the Transvaal

10. Food and Canning Workers at the Cape: The Structure of Gender and Race

11. Standing United

12. Never Far from Home: Family, Community, and Working Women

IV.DECENTRALIZATION AND THE RISE OF INDEPENDENT UNIONS

13. City and Periphery, 1960-1980

14. Repression and Resistance

Epilogue: Common Threads, Past and Present

Notes

Documentary Sources and Interviews

Index

Illustrations precede Chapter 8


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ISBN:
9780253207005
Binding:
Trade Paperback
Publication date:
04/22/1992
Publisher:
Indiana University Press
Language:
English
Pages:
384
Height:
1.12IN
Width:
6.15IN
Thickness:
1.12 in.
LCCN:
91023112
Number of Units:
1
Illustration:
Yes
Copyright Year:
1992
UPC Code:
2800253207007
Author:
Iris Berger
Subject:
History
Subject:
Women - Employment - South Africa - History -
Subject:
Women labor union members - South Africa -
Subject:
Politics-Labor

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