- Title
- Work in Progress Issue no.5 - Strike - Isithebe
- Creator
- Work in progress (WIP)
- Subject
- WIP
- Date
- June 1978
- Type
- text
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/111322
- Identifier
- vital:33436
- Description
- EARLY IN 1973 industrial unrest broke out in Natal, mainly in the Durban—Pinetown—New Germany industrial complex. Approximately 80 000 black, mainly African, workers went out on strike for higher wages, paralysing industry and commerce in Natal and introducing urgency into debate on possible incorporationist strategy towards the working class - insofar as this is possible in South Africa. Although strikes have been a regular feature of struggle in the years since then, the numbers of workers involved in strikes have declined. Figures are extremely dubious because of the various definitions given to strike action and the number of unreported occurrences, but some idea of the decrease may be gained from official statistics: 1973 - 246 strikes (African workers only), 1974 - 194 strikes involving 38 961 workers, 1975 - 123 strikes involving 12 451 workers, 1976 113 strikes involving 16 170 workers. Since 1973, however, conflict has increasingly moved into the political/military and ideological fields and has taken place around many issues unconnected with directly economic demands. That many of these issues can be fairly easily traced, at least in part, to the economic crisis in South Africa is not being denied. These issues have included Black Consciousness demonstrations — the Biko and Sobukwe funerals — ; Bantu Education — June 1976 and its aftermath - ; rent and bus protests; bomb attacks and political assassinations; armed incursions from across the borders by black South Africans; squatter protests; etc.
- Format
- 85 pages, pdf
- Publisher
- Work in Progress (WIP)
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Work in Progress (WIP)
- 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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