{"title":"Black Mine Workers in South Africa: Strategies of Co-option and Resistance","authors":"Christopher Pycroft, B. Munslow","doi":"10.1163/156852188X00105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/156852188X00105","url":null,"abstract":"The gold mining industry played a central role in the establishment of a racial dual labour system under apartheid capitalism. It continues to reflect in microcosm the conflicts and contradictions of the apartheid economy and remains at the forefront of the conflicts and debates surrounding the reforms in labour practices undertaken by the Botha government, notably the recognition of black trade unions. The Botha government has attempted to use this concession, which followed the militant struggles of black labour in the 1970s, against the black working class and the broader political struggle. Attempts are being made to co-opt key elements within the black working class to form a 'labour aristocracy'. This threat is being confronted by the 200,000 strong National Union of Mineworkers. The fastest growing union in South African labour history has scored significant victories against the largest and strongest sector of capital in the economy, the Chamber of Mines. In this struggle, new strategies and tactics are being unleashed by both sides in a grim and escalating battle.","PeriodicalId":424066,"journal":{"name":"Third World Workers","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125945087","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Invisible Workers: African Women and the Problem of the Self-Employed in Labour History","authors":"","doi":"10.1163/9789004478015_012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004478015_012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":424066,"journal":{"name":"Third World Workers","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128756299","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Class Conciousness and the Indian Working Class: Dilemmas of Marxist Historiography","authors":"","doi":"10.1163/9789004478015_004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004478015_004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":424066,"journal":{"name":"Third World Workers","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134026560","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Dialectics of Colonial Labour Control: Class Struggles in the Nigerian Coal Industry, 1914–1949","authors":"","doi":"10.1163/9789004478015_005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004478015_005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":424066,"journal":{"name":"Third World Workers","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128795521","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Labour Transformation and Capital Accumulation in West Malaysia","authors":"H. A. Yun","doi":"10.1163/156852188X00051","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/156852188X00051","url":null,"abstract":"The disintegration of Labour solidarity in recent years in multi-ethnic Malaysia poses a major challenge to the understanding of interested and concerned scholars. This paper addresses itself explicitly to this problem. To be effective, it is believed that a multi-pronged approach should be used. This article will trace and delineate changing patterns of capitalist accumulation while linking it to changes in the nature and composition of the Malaysian labour force. Empirical studies of workplace labour struggles will be introduced to show the interaction between macro-dynamic tendencies and developing trends at the workplace level.","PeriodicalId":424066,"journal":{"name":"Third World Workers","volume":"56 8","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131717206","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Trade Union Movement in Peninsular Malaysia, 1957–1969","authors":"Patricia R. Todd, J. Sundaram","doi":"10.1163/156852188X00079","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/156852188X00079","url":null,"abstract":"After independence, the trade union movement in Peninsular Malaysia continued to be subject to repression by the post-colonial state. Labour militancy emerged in the early and mid-sixties, only to be harshly suppressed together with the rest of the leftist challenge. Ineffectual, collaborationist and economistic leaders were thus allowed to clearly dominate the trade union movement by the end of the sixties.","PeriodicalId":424066,"journal":{"name":"Third World Workers","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125308573","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}