Threads of Solidarity

Women in South African Industry, 1900-1980

Häftad, Engelska, 1992

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Beskrivning

" . . . 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 SociologyVirtually 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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1992-04-22
Mått:152 x 235 x undefined mm
Vikt:594 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:384
Förlag:Indiana University Press
ISBN:9780253207005

Utforska kategorier

Allmän historia och världshistoria inom Historia och arkeologi

Mer om författaren

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.

Innehållsförteckning

PREFACEABBREVIATIONSI. GENDER AND INDUSTRIALIZATION1. Gender, Community, and Working-Class History2. Dependency and Domesticity: Women's Wage Labor, 1900-1925II. WOMEN IN THE NEW INDUSTRIAL UNIONS3. Patterns of Women's Labor, 1925-19404. Daughters of the Depression5. Commandos of Working Women6. A Lengthening ThreadIII. A NEW WORKING CLASS AND THE CHALLENGE OF DEVERSITY7. Nimble Fingers and Keen Eysight: Women in Wartime Production8. A New Working Class, 1940-19609.Solidarity Fragmented: Garment Workers in the Transvaal10. Food and Canning Workers at the Cape: The Structure of Gender and Race11. Standing United12. Never Far from Home: Family, Community, and Working WomenIV.DECENTRALIZATION AND THE RISE OF INDEPENDENT UNIONS13. City and Periphery, 1960-198014. Repression and ResistanceEpilogue: Common Threads, Past and PresentNotesDocumentary Sources and InterviewsIndexIllustrations precede Chapter 8