Machine derived contents note: Preface; 1. The historiography of labour; 2. The material basis for an African working class; 3. Culture, community and class; 4. Wage labour, non-wage labour and the total sphere of production; 5. Trade unions, workers and the state; 6. Labour in an industrialised society: the South African case; 7. Labour, the development process and social change; 8. A guide to the literature on labour in Africa; Bibliography; Index