Yours for the Union: Class and Community Struggles in South Africa (African History Archive),Used

Yours for the Union: Class and Community Struggles in South Africa (African History Archive),Used

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ReviewA key theme in Baruch Hirson's work is the enthusiasm, courage and weakness of the workers. In his view, this courage and enthusiasm was squandered. South Africa's workingclass communities are still paying the price and Baruch Hirson's tragic history is still their story. Tom Lodge, from the ForewordProduct DescriptionYours for the Union stands as a landmark history of the making of the black working class in South Africa. Drawing on a wide range of sources, it covers the crucial period of 193047, when South Africa's rapid industrialisation led to the dramatic growth of the working class, and uncontrolled urbanisation resulted in vast shanty towns which became a focal point for resistance and protest. Importantly, Hirson was one of the first historians to go beyond the traditional focus on the mines and factory workplaces, broadening his account to include the lesser known community struggles of the urban ghettoes and rural reserves.Written by an author with firsthand involvement in South African labour struggles, Yours for the Union broke new ground with its account of the effort to mobilise urban squatters, domestic workers and rural peasants, and remains an indispensable resource for the study of the South African labour movement.About the AuthorBaruch Hirson (19211999) was a lifelong activist who spent nineandahalf years in South African prisons as a result of his opposition to the apartheid regime. Following his release in 1973 he left for England, where he lectured in history at several universities and produced eight finely written, passionately argued books on the history of the left in South Africa. These include Year of Fire, Year of Ash (1984), The Cape Town Intellectuals (2000) and his autobiography, Revolutions in My Life (1995). He also founded the controversial critical journal Searchlight South Africa.Tom Lodge is Professor of Politics at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, and one of the world's leading experts on African political history.

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