A rethinking of South Africa's recent past, this book presents unique historical evidence of white working-class responses to the dismantling of apartheid and establishment of majority rule in South Africa, from the 1970s to present, placing this in the context of global debates on neoliberalism and identity politics.
A rethinking of South Africa's recent past, this book presents unique historical evidence of white working-class responses to the dismantling of apartheid and establishment of majority rule in South Africa, from the 1970s to present, placing this in the context of global debates on neoliberalism and identity politics.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Danelle van Zyl-Hermann is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of History at the University of Basel, Switzerland, and a Research Associate with the International Studies Group at the University of the Free State, South Africa. Her research on the entanglement of race and class, and the politics of whiteness in Africa has been published in various international journals. She is the co-editor of Rethinking White Societies in Southern Africa, 1930s-1990s (2020), a regional history of poor and working-class whites during colonialism and white minority rule.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction: The Return of the White Working Class; Part I: White Workers and the Racial State; 1. Privileged Race, Precarious Class: White Labour from the Mineral Revolution to the 'Golden Age'; 2. From Sweetheart to 'Frankenstein': The NP's Changing Stance Towards White Labour Amid the Crisis of the 1970s; 3. Race and Rights at the Rock-Face of Change: White Organised Labour and the Wiehahn Reforms; Part II: White Workers and Civil Society Mobilisation; 4. From Trade Union to Social Movement: The MWU/Solidarity's Formation of a Post-Apartheid Social Alliance; 5. An 'Alternative Government': The Solidarity Movement's Contemporary Strategies; 6. Discursive Labour and Strategic Contradiction: Managing the Working-Class Roots of a Declassed Organisation; 7. 'Guys Like Us Are Left To Our Own Mercy': Counternarratives, Ambivalence and the Pressures of Racial Gatekeeping Among Solidarity's Blue-Collar Members; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
Introduction: The Return of the White Working Class; Part I: White Workers and the Racial State; 1. Privileged Race, Precarious Class: White Labour from the Mineral Revolution to the 'Golden Age'; 2. From Sweetheart to 'Frankenstein': The NP's Changing Stance Towards White Labour Amid the Crisis of the 1970s; 3. Race and Rights at the Rock-Face of Change: White Organised Labour and the Wiehahn Reforms; Part II: White Workers and Civil Society Mobilisation; 4. From Trade Union to Social Movement: The MWU/Solidarity's Formation of a Post-Apartheid Social Alliance; 5. An 'Alternative Government': The Solidarity Movement's Contemporary Strategies; 6. Discursive Labour and Strategic Contradiction: Managing the Working-Class Roots of a Declassed Organisation; 7. 'Guys Like Us Are Left To Our Own Mercy': Counternarratives, Ambivalence and the Pressures of Racial Gatekeeping Among Solidarity's Blue-Collar Members; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
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