Trade unions, community organisation and politics: a local case study on the East Rand

Title: Trade unions, community organisation and politics: a local case study on the East Rand
Creator: Holdt, K von
Subject: Labour unions -- South Africa
Subject: Labour unions -- Political activity -- South Africa
Subject: Community development -- South Africa
Date: 19--?
Type: text
Type: book
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/73269
Identifier: vital:30171
Description: This dissertation sets out as a challenge to two trends in the analysis of the trade union movement. The first trend implies that there is no fundamental difference in political strategy between the Federation of South African Trade Unions (FOSATU) and the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) which was formed in 1985 and included amongst others all the FOSATU affiliates. Swilling for instance writes that the unions established in the 1970s "shunned distinctions between economic and political issues and stridently challenged state policies" (Swilling, 1987: 2). Maree too implies that the involvement of the industrial unions in community and political struggles in the mid-1980s was not incompatible with their earlier position (1987: 10).
Format: 140 pages, pdf
Publisher: University of the Witwatersrand, Sociology of Work Programme
Language: English
Rights: University of the Witwatersrand
Rights: No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without prior permission from the publisher

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