Threads of Solidarity: Women in South African Industry, 1900-1980. Iris BergerThe Most Difficult Revolution: Women and Trade Unions. Alice H. Cook , Val R. Lorwin , Arlene Kaplan DanielsSweatshop Strife: Class, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Jewish Labour Movement of Toronto, 1900-1939. Ruth A. FragerMaid in the U.S.A.Mary RomeroBeyond the Typewriter: Gender, Class, and the Origins of Modern American Office Work, 1900-1930. Sharon Hartman StromWorking Women of Collar City: Gender, Class, and Community in Troy, 1864-86. Carole TurbinFactory Daughters: Gender, Household Dynamics, and Rural Industrialization in Java. Diane Lauren Wolf

Signs ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 448-455
Author(s):  
Sonya O. Rose
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
Office Work ◽  
Labour Movement ◽  
Rural Industrialization ◽  
Household Dynamics ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Ethnicity And Gender

scholarly journals Discursive investigation into John’s internalised spirit identity and its implication

2016 ◽  
Vol 72 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zorodzai Dube
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Gospel Of John ◽  
Good Work ◽  
Boundary Making ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
African Context ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Ethnicity And Gender ◽  
Johannine Community

What does it mean to live in a society where everything good is located within one ethnicity, and geography? In reading the gospel of John, one gets the impression that faithful disciples, the Holy Spirit and morality are exclusively located within the Johannine community and can only permeate to the outside through the good work of the insiders – the disciples. Everything is asymmetric – morality, ideal disciples and good virtues – these originate from within John’s community. Outside John’s community, it is darkness that awaits the illuminating lights of John’s disciples, without which they will remain in perpetual darkness. Despite recent theories that position John as a missionary and an open community, still it does not remove the asymmetric nature of the gospel. The study builds on views inspired by scholars such as Jonathan Draper (1992:13) to argue that John used the Holy Spirit to naturalise identities. From this perspective and if read from the South African context of racism, ethnicity and gender, John makes the reader think about the consequences and implications of exclusive social boundaries.Keywords: Spirit, identity, boundary making, modernity, Social cohesion

scholarly journals “Pulled Apart, Pushed Together”

2005 ◽  
Vol 59 (4) ◽  
pp. 769-792 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Brookes ◽  
Timothy Hinks ◽  
Geoffrey Wood ◽  
Pauline Dibben ◽  
Ian Roper
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
Organizational Capacity ◽  
Nationwide Survey ◽  
The Other ◽  
Labour Movement ◽  
Economic Context ◽  
Vertical Linkages ◽  
Racial Lines ◽  
The One

This is a study of horizontal and vertical solidarity within a national labour movement, based on a nationwide survey of members of affiliated unions of the Congress of South African Trade Unions. On the one hand, the survey reveals relatively high levels of vertical and horizontal solidarity, despite the persistence of some cleavages on gender and racial lines. On the other hand, the maintenance and deepening of existing horizontal and vertical linkages in a rapidly changing socio-economic context, represents one of many challenges facing organized labour in an industrializing economy. COSATU’s strength is contingent not only on an effective organizational capacity, and a supportive network linking key actors and interest groupings, but also on the ability to meet the concerns of existing constituencies and those assigned to highly marginalized categories of labour.

scholarly journals Building Workers’ Education in the Context of the Struggle Against Racial Capitalism: The Role of Labour Support Organisations

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mondli Hlatshwayo
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
Labour Movement ◽  
Training Project ◽  
Racial Capitalism ◽  
Historical Writings ◽  
The Relationship

In South Africa, with few exceptions, scholarship on the modern labour movement which emerged after the Durban strikes of 1973 tends to focus on trade unions that constituted the labour movement, strikes, collective bargaining, and workplace changes. While all these topics covered by labour scholars are of great importance, there is less emphasis on the role played by labour support organisations (LSOs) which, in some cases, predate the formation of the major trade unions. Based on an analysis of historical writings, some archival and internet sources, this article critically discusses the contribution of LSOs and their use of workers’ education to build and strengthen trade unions, which became one of the critical forces in the struggles against racial capitalism in the 1980s. In particular, it critically examines the work of the Urban Training Project (UTP) and the South African Committee for Higher Education (SACHED) workers’ education programmes as a contribution to building the labour movement. The relationship between trade unions which had elaborated structures of accountability and LSOs which were staffed by a relatively small layer of activists also led to debates about accountability and mandates.

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