Labnet: Special issue released: "Transnational and Comparative Perspectives on Southern African Labour History", African Studies Volume 66, Issue 2 & 3, August 2007

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[Cross-posted, with thanks, from H-Labor. AB]

From:    "Lucien Van Der Walt" <Lucien.VanDerWalt at wits.ac.za>

African Studies Volume 66, Issue 2 & 3, August 2007
Routledge: Taylor and Francis
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/00020184.asp

Special issue: "Transnational and Comparative Perspectives on Southern
African Labour History"
Edited by Philip Bonner, Jonathan Hyslop and Lucien Van Der Walt

This special issue follows from an international labour history
conference on "Rethinking Worlds of Labour: southern African labour
history in international context", held at the University of the
Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 28-31 July 2006. The conference, and this
volume, were premised on the vision of a renewed labour history that
takes regional and transnational processes seriously, and that situates
South Africa within southern Africa, and southern Africa, too, within
the larger world. In eschewing "methodological nationalism", and
thinking about a southern African, rather than a South African, working
class, and in noting that working classes and working-class movements
are not forged in autonomous "national" contexts, the emphasis was on
connections and comparisons. This volume is a contribution to opening up
a transnational labour history, not its conclusion, and is one of a
series of initiatives across the world, often independently undertaken,
at "globalising" labour history.

Papers

Philip Bonner, Jonathan Hyslop and Lucien Van Der Walt, "Rethinking
Worlds of Labour: Southern African Labour History in International
Context"

Marcel Van Der Linden, "Labour History: The Old, the New and the Global"

Sumit Sakar, "Labour History in India and South Africa: Some Affinities
and Contrasts"

Peter Alexander, "Women and Coal Mining in India and South Africa,
c1900-1940"

Lucien Van Der Walt, "The First Globalisation and Transnational Labour
Activism in Southern Africa: White Labourism, the IWW, and the ICU,
1904-1934"

Jeremy Seekings, "Workers and the Beginnings of Welfare State-Building
in Argentina and South Africa"

George M. Gona, "Towards a Concrete East African Trade Union Federation:
History, Prospects and Constraints"

Allison Drew, "Urban Activists and Rural Movements: Communists in South
Africa and Algeria, 1920s-1930s"

Karen Hunt, "Towards a Gendered and Raced Socialist Internationalism:
Dora Montefiore Encounters South Africa (1912-14)"

Wazha G. Morapedi, "Comparative Aspects of Farm Labour in Twentieth
Century Botswana"

Kally Forrest, "Out of Time: The National Union of Metalworker's Pursuit
of Power: 1989-1995"



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