Workers, War and the Origins of Apartheid

This book provides a significant revision of South African labor history and makes an important contribution to the debate about apartheid's genesis. Using a range of untapped sources, it shows that there was far more strike action during World War II than has been officially acknowledged. A new working class, sometimes organized into multiracial unions, won improved wages and softened racial prejudice among white workers.

Contradicting earlier accounts, this study demonstrates that wartime mechanization and black advancement into semi-skilled positions were limited and cannot explain subsequent support for apartheid.

Peter Alexander is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the Rand Afrikaans University

Tables

vi

Terminology & Money

vi

Abbreviations

vii

Acknowledgements

ix

Introduction

1

(8)

Circumstances

9

(14)

Collaboration & Control

23

(9)

Tempering Resistance

32

(12)

The Upsurge

44

(11)

Recognition Reassessed

55

(9)

It was War!

64

(16)

Organization & Radicalization

80

(18)

Legacy of War

98

(12)

Storm Ahead

110

(8)

Strikes, Smuts & Apartheid

118

(9)

Appendix 1 Striking Statistics

127

(5)

Appendix 2 Biographical Notes on Interviewees

132

(6)

Appendix 3 SATLC & the Industrial Conciliation Act

138

(3)

Bibliography

141

(17)

Notes

158

(49)

Index

207

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Workers, War and the Origins of Apartheid

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