The Unions of South Africa

The Unions of South Africa

A basic assessment about the trade-union movement in Africa would go something like the following: the emergence of postwar nationalist movements coincided with economic expansion and enormous pressure on the living standards of the rising number of African workers. In this historical context, unions (or better, labor militancy more generally) played a big role and were enormously successful, given the slight weight of secondary industry in underdeveloped extractive economies. The key workers...


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