With shouts of Afrika!�: The 1952 textile strike at good hope textiles, King William's town

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dc.contributor.authorMinkley, Gary
dc.date.accessioned2021-09-23T11:00:01Z
dc.date.available2021-09-23T11:00:01Z
dc.date.issued1990
dc.description* Financial support from the Human Sciences Research Council is gratefully acknowledged. It is not, of course, to be held responsible for the opinions expressed or the conclusions reached.en_US
dc.description.abstractThis paper, through a detailed examination of one of the biggest and most significant strikes in the East London region, suggests its importance lies both in the events and processes of the strike itself, and in its longer term impact on political traditions of union and popular struggle. It argues that a dynamic relationship developed between a newly emergent industrial working class in the textile industry, and an equally rapidly established local ATWIU, and local ANC branch. This resulted in the merging of a pattern of worker discontent and strike action with the ANCs Defiance Campaign in particular, and in so doing, the nature and direction of the strike was transformed. Finally it is argued that the defeat of this �mass� strike of defiance by the textile workers, laid the patterns and built the disillusions of future labour struggles in the region. � 1990 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipHuman Sciences Research Councilen_US
dc.identifier.citationMinkley, G. (1990) �With shouts of Afrika !�: The 1952 textile strike at good hope textiles, king William's town, Social Dynamics, 16:2, 71-90, DOI: 10.1080/02533959008458496en_US
dc.identifier.issn02533952
dc.identifier.uri10.1080/02533959008458496
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10566/6803
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherSocial Dynamicsen_US
dc.subjectStrikeen_US
dc.subjectEast Londonen_US
dc.subjectSouth Africaen_US
dc.subjectPolitical traditionsen_US
dc.subjectUnionen_US
dc.subjectDynamic relationshipen_US
dc.subjectEmergent working classen_US
dc.subjectTextile industryen_US
dc.subjectANCen_US
dc.subjectDefiance campaignen_US
dc.subjectATWIUen_US
dc.subjectStrike actionen_US
dc.subjectWorker discontenten_US
dc.subjectMass strikeen_US
dc.subjectDefianceen_US
dc.subjectTextile workersen_US
dc.subjectLabour strugglesen_US
dc.titleWith shouts of Afrika!�: The 1952 textile strike at good hope textiles, King William's townen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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