Industrialisation and Trade Union Organisation in South Africa, 1924-55: The Rise and Fall of the South African Trades and Labour Council

Abstract

List of tables Note on terminology Preface List of abbreviations 1. Introduction: South African trade unions, 1924-55 2. Craft unions and mining unions to 1924 3. The challenge to the craft unions, 1924-39 4. Secondary industrialisation and the emergence of radical non-racial trade unionism between the wars 5. Afrikaner nationalism and the trade unions, 1934-55 6. Craft unions and dilution during the Second World War 7. Scientific management and the restructuring of the division of labour, 1939-55 8. The crisis of non-racial industrial unionism, 1939-55 9. The breakup of the Trades and Labour Council, 1947-55 10. Summary and conclusions Appendices Notes Bibliography Index.