The ANC's early years
Subtitle: nation, class and place in South Africa before 1940
By: Peter Limb
Series: Hidden histories series
Publisher: Unisa Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Pretoria
Language: eng
Number of pages: 586
ISBN-13: 9781868885299
Subjects: African National Congress; Labor; Anti-apartheid movements; Afrikanischer Nationalkongress; Arbeiter; History
Other titles: African National Congress's early years
Description: Studies the intersection of class and African national forces in the history of Africa's oldest national liberation movement through the words and actions of its members.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 495-542) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Perspectives on ANC-labour history; title: Black labour in South Africa to 1940; title: Early African political organisations and black labour; title: The SANNC and African working people; title: To "heartily ... assist the working movement as best they can" : Congress and black labour in the Transvaal, 1912-1919; title: "Join our union - you will find good result" : Congress and labour in the Cape, Natal and Orange Free State, 1912-1919; title: "A strong seed in a stony bed" : the 1920s; title: "The ruling class is getting lost in the mist and sea of selfishness" : Natal in the 1920s; title: "I-Kongilesi Lilizwi enzindlwini" (Congress's name is Household) : the Transvaal, Cape and Orange Free State in the 1920s; title: From "culpable inertia" to rebuilding : the ANC and labour in the 1930s; title: Moderate centre, militant province? The Cape in the 1930s; title: "A very, very wide influence, even when ... dead" : the Transvaal, Natal and Orange Free State in the 1930s; title: Conclusion.