History of the Labour Movements in South Africa Collection

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The Workers Handbook No. 2

Only the Workers Can Free the Workers: the origin of the workers’ control tradition and the Trade Union Advisory Coordinating Committee (TUACC), 1970-1979 by Nicole Ulrich

Theses and Dissertations

The Durban Strikes 1973: Human Beings with Souls by Institute for Industrial Education

Crossing the Colour Lines, Crossing the Continents: Comparing the Racial Politics of the IWW in South Africa and the United States, 1905 - 1925

Memorandum to the Secretary-General of the United Nations

Official or Original Documents

A Working Life, Cruel Beyond Belief by Alfred Temba Qabula

White Activists in the Revival of the Worker’s Movement by D. Hemson, M. Legassick and N. Ulrich

Black Consciousness in South Africa: The Dialectics of Ideological Resistance to White Supremacy by Robert Fatton

A Survey Of Race Relations In South Africa 1973

Labour time in South African gold mines: 1886-2006 by Paul Finlay Stewart

Theses and Dissertations

Between Marginalisation & Revitalisation? The State of Trade Unionism in South Africa by Webster and Buhlungu, 2004

Trade Union Organizer in Durban: M B Yengwa, 1943-1944 by Baruch Hirson

Why May Day matters - A reflection from Johannesburg by Red Jack (libcom.org), 29 April 2011

The Industrial Workers of Africa, 1917-1921 by Bikisha Media Collective

Handbook of Revolutionary Warfare by Kwame Nkrumar

Extract from Striking Back by Jeremy Baskin

Remarks by the President of the African National Congress Comrade JG Zuma to Worker`s Day Durban, 1 May 2015

Weaving our Stories, Together! by Norman Daniels

Universally Comprehensible, Arrogantly Local by Wiebke Keim

Class Consciousness and Migrant Workers by David Hemson (University of Warwick)

Theses and Dissertations

HARWU: The Aborted Attempt to Build a National South African Catering Union (1984 – 1990) by Allan Horwitz, June 2018

The Struggle for the Tramway Union 1930-1945 by Chris Giffard

Construction General 1987 - 1989

Newspaper clippings

Energy 1975 - 1977

Newspaper clippings

Newspaper clippings

Newspaper clippings

Energy 1980 - 1981

Newspaper clippings

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