| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 368 pages) : illustrations |
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I. Gender and Industrialization. 1. Gender, Community, and Working-Class History. 2. Dependency and Domesticity: Women's Wage Labor, 1900-1925 -- II. Women in the New Industrial Unions. 3. Patterns of Women's Labor, 1925-1940. 4. Daughters of the Depression. 5. Commandos of Working Women. 6. A Lengthening Thread -- III. A New Working Class and the Challenge of Diversity. 7. Nimble Fingers and Keen Eyesight: Women in Wartime Production. 8. A New Working Class, 1940-1960. 9. Solidarity Fragmented: Garment Workers in the Transvaal. 10. Food and Canning Workers at the Cape: The Structure of Gender and Race. 11. Standing United. 12. Never Far from Home: Family, Community, and Working Women -- IV. Decentralization and the Rise of Independent Unions. 13. City and Periphery, 1960-1980. 14. Repression and Resistance -- Epilogue: Common Threads, Past and Present |
| Summary |
Annotation " ... enables us to deepen our understanding of the organization of working women."--International Journal of African Historical Studies " ... an impressive piece of scholarship."--American Journal of Sociology Virtually ignored by labor historians are the black and white women in South African industries. Drawing on comparative labor history and feminist theory, this important study traces the history of women as industrial workers and trade unionists in South Africa during most of the twentieth century |
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Industries Personnel Women |
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South Africa |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-357) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
Women -- Employment -- South Africa -- History -- 20th century
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Women labor union members -- South Africa -- History -- 20th century
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
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Women -- Employment
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Women labor union members
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Arbeiterin
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Vrouwenarbeid.
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Geschichte (1900-1980)
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South Africa.
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industrial workers.
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women's employment.
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women.
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15.80 history of Africa.
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Weibliche Arbeitskräfte
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Industrie
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Gewerkschaft
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Arbeiterbewegung
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Südafrika
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South Africa
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Südafrika (Staat)
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History
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Electronic book
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| LC no. |
91023112 |
| ISBN |
058502507X |
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9780585025070 |
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0253207002 |
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9780253207005 |
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