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Half a century later: Durban Strikes – 1973 by Gerhard Maré
This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference
“White ladies [do not] push heavy skips”: Examining NUDW and CCAWUSA organising of occupational categories in the retail and distributive trade in the late 1960s and 1970s by Bridget Kenny
This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference Paper proposal for the CCAWUSA and Independent…
Writing the 1973 Durban Strikes: From ‘black worker unrest’ to the ‘birth of independent trade unions’ by Debby Bonnin
This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference Debby Bonnin (Department of Sociology, University…
The Durban Strikes of 1973 and the End of a Cycle of Struggle by Mondli Hlatshwayo
This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference The Durban strikes of 1973, and the subsequent…
Can Shop Stewards Rekindle the post-1973 Union Traditions? Setting A New Agenda for Union Revitalisation! by Mojalefa M Musi
A Matter of ‘Principle’: Corporate America and the South African Worker in the Early 1970s by Mattie C. Webb
This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference While much scholarship considers the 1976 Soweto…
Speaking for ourselves: FOSATU Worker News by Victor Gwande and Nicole Ulrich
This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference This paper will provide an overview of FOSATU…
Academia and activism: A unique alliance in working class organisation post 1973 by Vannessa Kruger
This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference The post-1973 period created a space for academics,…
The Durban Strikes and the making of the Political Struggles in South Africa by Vuyisile Msila
This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference When the Industrial and Commercial Workers’ Union…
40 Years of Shop Floor Resistance in a Rubber Factory by Sithembiso Bhengu
This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference Abstract This paper reflects on the 40 years …
The Changing Nature of the African Working Class: Migrant Workers, Identity and Struggles by Sithembiso Bhengu
This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference Abstract The history of the African working…
Trade Unions in South Africa by Ari Sitas and Bianca Tame
This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference South African trade unions had a decisive role in…
An evolution of Worker Education in South Africa since 1973 and its impact on Worker Movement by John Mhandu
This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference Abstract The article seeks to contribute to…
The trade union movement and the burden of the future by Monique Marks
This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference Progressive social movement organisations in…
1973: Neo-apartheid and the Sleeping the Giant by Mbuso Nkosi
This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference 1973: Neo-apartheid and the sleeping the giant. …
Allies or collaborators? Dladla, Buthelezi and the KwaZulu regime, 1972-75 by David Hemson
This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference
Durban 1973, a National Breakthrough, in the Context of a Globally Developing Socialism? But what if the reality was actually an emergent 50-year international capitalist 'counterrevolution' of 1973-2022? by David Cooper
This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference ABSTRACT FOR PROPOSED CONFERENCE 26-27 JANUARY,…
Excavations: Shirts, Placards, Posters and the Remnants of Spectacular Protest in the LRS’s Collections by Lebogang Mokwena
This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference South Africa has a long and rich scholarly…
Exploring Student-Worker Alliance: the role of COSAS in trade unions, 1979-1985 by Noor Nieftagodien
This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference Abstract Exploring Student-Worker Alliance…
From Durban Falkirk to Defy: Changing sources of workers’ power in the metal industry by Andries Bezuidenhout and Edward Webster
This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference Conference on Fifty years since the 1973 Durban…
Gigs, hustles and hope: work for young South Africans beyond the wage by Adam Cooper and Bernard Dubbeld
This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference The twenty-first century has shattered the idea…
NEDLAC, Union Investment Companies, the Tripartite Alliance and the Shock of the Government's New Economic Policies by Sifiso Gwala
This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference
Performance, Violence and the Collapse of a Cultural Movement by Ari Sitas
This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference The paper discusses how by 1995 the cultural…
Reclaiming Radical Traditions of Workers' Education by Linda Cooper and Sheri Hamilton
This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference South African trade unions have a long and rich…
The British Government, The Trade Union Congress, and Black South African Trade Unionism, 1973 to 1994 by Dan Feather
This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference In the aftermath of the Durban Strikes (1973) the…
The Durban Mystery Unraveled: An empirical analysis by Eddie Cottle
This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference Biography Eddie Cottle is a postdoctoral…
The Fruits of the 1973 Durban Strikes: A Powerful Black Trade Union Movement. Are they still on track or are they off the rails? by Johann Maree
This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference Short Bio Johann Maree was one of the founders…
The Lessons of the Transition Era, Inequality and the Politics of Universal Health Care: Re-visiting the Proposals of the Macro-Economic Research Group (MERG) and the Reconstruction and Development Programme by Robert Van Niekerk
This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference The paper offers a reflection on the macro…
The Road to Durban: Workers’ struggles, student movements, and the resurgence of resistance politics in Namibia and South Africa by Heike Becker
This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference My proposed paper looks into connections between…
The Student Wages Commissions, the 1973 Durban Strikes, and the Politics of Statistics by Grace Davie
This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference Students played a notable role in the Durban…
Trade unions and Popular Resistance in the 1980s and New Alliances and the Different Unions Traditions by Kaizer Thibedi
This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference THE BRIEF: TRADE UNIONS AND POPULAR RESISTANCE IN…
Worker Culture: It’s Emergence, Gains and the Implications of Decline by Frank Meintjies
This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference The first shoots of worker culture emerged in the…
“Dockers and solidarity activism: from the Durban Strikes to choke points in today’s global economy” by Peter Cole
This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference The Durban Strikes were one of the pivotal…
“Exodus without a map”: What happened to the Durban moment? by Edward Webster
This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference Preamble Although I had known…
“Human beings with Souls”: Reconsidering The Durban Strikes Pamphlet by Alex Lichtenstein
This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference Abstract: To this day, the only book…
“I want to live not survive”: the politics of refusing low-wage work in a time of mass joblessness by Hannah Dawson
This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference Why would young Black South African men refuse low…