Forrest.

Metal That Will Not Bend. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (578 pages)

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: 1990-1992 -- Chapter 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: 1989-1994 -- Chapter 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.

Traces The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa's (Numsa) accumulation, from a few small unions in a handful of factories to the staging of national strikes involving thousands of workers in auto and engineering. It examines how the union used its influence in macroeconomic and political arenas.

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National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa -- History.
Metal-workers -- Labor unions -- South Africa.
Strikes and lockouts -- Metal-workers -- South Africa.


Electronic books.

HD6870.5.Z7 -- N387 2011eb

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