The ANC's Early Years

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This book analyses the ANC and its attitudes and relationships with the nascent formations of the black working class, with particular attention to the most conscious and active workers. It focuses on the formative period of engagement of political and socioeconomic forces and also discusses migrant, rural, domestic, and women workers.

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Preface

1. Introduction

Part 1: Nation, Class, and Place in South African History

2. Perspectives on ANC-Labour History

3. Black Labour in South Africa to 1940

4. Early African Political Organisations and Black Labour

Part 2: The ANC and Labour, the First Decade

5. The SANNC and African Working People

6. To Heartily Assist the Working Movement as Best They Can: Congress and Black Labour in the Transvaal, 1912-1919

7. Join Our UnionYou Will Find Good Result: Congress and Labour in the Cape, Natal and Free State, 19121919

Part 3: The Second Decade

8. A Strong Seed in a Stony Bed: The 1920s

9. The Ruling Class is Getting Lost in the Mist and Sea of Selfishness: Natal in the 1920s

Chapter 10 I-Kongilesi Lilizwi ezindlwini (Congress's Name is Household): The Transvaal, Cape and Orange Free State in the 1920s

Part 4: The Third Decade

11. From Culpable Inertia to Rebuilding: The ANC and Labour in the 1930s

12. Moderate Centre, Militant Province? The Cape in the 1930s

13. A Very, Very Wide Influence, Even When Dead: The Transvaal, Natal, and Orange Free State in the 1930s

Conclusion

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Index