Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-277) and index.
Contents:
Section A. The ICU in Southern Africa -- Chapter 1: The ICU, the Mines and the State in South West Africa, 1920-1926: Garveyism, syndicalism and global labour history -- Chapter 2. The rabble-rouser: Robert Sambo's ICU Stint in Rhodesia -- Chapter 3. Organising the unorganised: ICU internationalism and the transnational unionisation of migrant workers -- Section B. Local and Regional Histories of the ICU -- Chapter 4. The ICU in Free State Dorps and Dorpies -- Chapter 5. The ICU and local politics: Kroonstad, from the Late 1920s to the 1930s -- Chapter 6. Trouble brewing: the ICU, the 1925 Bloemfontein riots and the women question -- Chapter 7. The ICU in the Western Transvaal, 1926-1934: re-imagining ideological, spatial and political realities -- Chapter 8. The ICU in Port-Elizabeth: the making of a union-cum-protest movement, 1920-1931 -- Chapter 9. 'Home truths' and the political discourse of the ICU -- Section C. factions and legacies of the ICU -- Chapter 10. Leadership contestations and worker mobilisation in the early years of the twentieth century: Selby Msimang and the ICU, 1919-1921 -- Chapter 11. The communist party of South Africa and the ICU, 1923 - 1931 -- Chapter 12. Illusion and disillusion: white women and the ICU -- Chapter 13. The romance and the tragedy of the ICU.
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