Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations and Acronyms; Introduction; Chapter One: Building local power: 1970s; Chapter Two: Power through numbers: 1980-1985; Chapter Three: Power in unity: 1980-1987; Chapter Four: Breaking the apartheid mould: 1980-1982; Chapter Five: Worker action fans out: 1980-1984; Chapter Six: Melding institutional, campaign and bureaucratic power: 1983-1990; Chapter Seven: Conquest of Metal Industrial Council: 1987-1988; Chapter Eight: Auto workers take power: 1982-1989
Chapter Nine: Auto takes on the industry: 1990-1992Chapter Ten: New directions: 1988-1991; Chapter Eleven: Defeat of Mawu strategy: 1990-1992; Chapter Twelve: Towards a new industry: 1993; Chapter Thirteen: The Cinderella sector: 1983-1990; Chapter Fourteen: Applying vision in auto and motor: 1990-1995; Chapter Fifteen: Applying vision in engineering: 1994-1995; Chapter Sixteen: Independent worker movement: 1980-1986; Chapter Seventeen: Beginnings of alliance politics: 1984-1986; Chapter Eighteen: Weakening the socialist impulse: Civil war in Natal 1987-1994
Chapter Nineteen: Civil war in Transvaal: 1989-1994Chapter Twenty: New politics: 1987-1990; Chapter Twenty-One: Disinvestment: Pragmatic politics 1985-1989; Chapter Twenty-Two: Compromising on socialism: Legacy of the Alliance 1989-1995; Appendix; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index ; Back Cover
Summary
In the 1980s there was a surge of trade union power on a scale not previously experienced in South Africa. The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) was a highly prominent and innovative union in this assertion of muscle and one of Cosatu's most radical affiliates, and its story is one of astonishing achievements as its activities built workers' rights and deeply eroded the apartheid state. Metal that will not bend-a translation of the union's motto Insimbi ayigobi-tells that story by revisiting the formation of the powerful modern day union movement. The trade union movement
