The ANC's early years : nation, class and place in South Africa before 1940 / Peter Limb.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Limb, Peter, author.

Series:

Hidden histories series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anti-apartheid movements--South Africa--History.

Anti-apartheid movements.

Labor--South Africa--History.

Labor.

South Africa--History--1909-1961.

South Africa.

African National Congress--History.

African National Congress.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 586 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

African National Congress's early years

Place of Publication:

Pretoria : Unisa Press, 2010.

Summary:

At a time when African National Congress alliance politics are again prominent in South Africa, this nuanced study of the intersection of class and African national forces in the history of Africa's oldest national liberation movement helps explain the deeper origins of this alliance. The book squarely places African agency at the centre of South African history and re-casts the story of the ANC in the words and actions of its own members and supporters at local and regional, as well as national, levels. In doing so, it shines a long overdue light on ordinary black activists, including politicised workers and women, and integrates these stories with those of more well-known leaders.

Contents:

Introduction

Perspectives on ANC-labour history

Black labour in South Africa to 1940

Early African political organisations and black labour

The SANNC and African working people

To "heartily ... assist the working movement as best they can" : Congress and black labour in the Transvaal, 1912-1919

"Join our union - you will find good result" : Congress and labour in the Cape, Natal and Orange Free State, 1912-1919

"A strong seed in a stony bed" : the 1920s

"The ruling class is getting lost in the mist and sea of selfishness" : Natal in the 1920s

"I-Kongilesi Lilizwi enzindlwini" (Congress's name is Household) : the Transvaal, Cape and Orange Free State in the 1920s

From "culpable inertia" to rebuilding : the ANC and labour in the 1930s

Moderate centre, militant province? The Cape in the 1930s

"A very, very wide influence, even when ... dead" : the Transvaal, Natal and Orange Free State in the 1930s

Conclusion.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 20 Mar 2020).

ISBN:

1-86888-882-7