There is a universal understanding for workers to negotiate in one voice, yet Blacks were refused membership to Trade unions.The complexity of the race situation in South Africa enhanced this gap between the White and BlacK worker. Black workers had to find representation through the Black Conciousness movement. (incomplete document)
Archive record
The Black Workers Project: A proposal

- Origin date
- 9 September 1979
- Updated
- 27 Aug 2019

South African History Online. (2016, February 22). The Black Workers Project: A proposal. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/nso/ref/R-0113488
South African History Online (2016) 'The Black Workers Project: A proposal', South African History Online, 22 February. Available at: https://sahistory.org.za/nso/ref/R-0113488 (Accessed: 25 July 2026).
South African History Online, The Black Workers Project: A proposal [website], https://sahistory.org.za/nso/ref/R-0113488, (accessed 25 July 2026).
"The Black Workers Project: A proposal." South African History Online, 22 Feb. 2016, https://sahistory.org.za/nso/ref/R-0113488. Accessed 25 July 2026.
South African History Online. "The Black Workers Project: A proposal." South African History Online. February 22, 2016. https://sahistory.org.za/nso/ref/R-0113488.
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