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.
在种族隔离的资本主义制度下，黄金采矿业在建立种族二元劳动制度方面发挥了核心作用。它继续以微观的形式反映种族隔离经济的冲突和矛盾，并且仍然处于围绕波塔政府进行的劳工实践改革，特别是承认黑人工会的冲突和辩论的前沿。博塔政府试图利用这一让步来对抗黑人工人阶级和更广泛的政治斗争，这种让步是在20世纪70年代黑人劳工的激进斗争之后发生的。人们正试图拉拢黑人工人阶级中的关键人物，形成一个“劳工贵族”。20万名强大的全国矿工工会正面临这一威胁。南非劳工史上发展最快的工会在对抗经济中最大最强的资本部门矿业商会(Chamber of Mines)的斗争中取得了重大胜利。在这场斗争中，双方都在残酷和不断升级的战斗中释放出新的战略和战术。
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Pub Date : 1988-01-01DOI: 10.1163/9789004478015_012
{"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}
Pub Date : 1988-01-01DOI: 10.1163/9789004478015_004
{"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}
Pub Date : 1988-01-01DOI: 10.1163/9789004478015_005
{"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}
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.
{"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}
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.
{"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}
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