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Threads of Solidarity Women in South African Industry, 1900-1980

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ISBN-10: 0253207002

ISBN-13: 9780253207005

Edition: 1992

Authors: Iris Berger

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List price: $14.95
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 4/22/1992
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English

Iris Berger is Professor of History, Africana Studies, and Women's Studies at the University at Albany. A noted authority, she has published widely on African history and is past president of the African Studies Association.

Preface
Abbreviations
Gender and Industrialization
Gender, Community, and Working-Class History
Dependency and Domesticity: Women's Wage Labor, 1900-1925
Women in the New Industrial Unions
Patterns of Women's Labor, 1925-1940
Daughters of the Depression
Commandos of Working Women
A Lengthening Thread
A New Working Class and the Challenge of Diversity
Nimble Fingers and Keen Eyesight: Women in Wartime Production
A New Working Class, 1940-1960
Solidarity Fragmented: Garment Workers in the Transvaal
Food and Canning Workers at the Cape: The Structure of Gender and Race
Standing United
Never Far from Home: Family, Community, and Working Women
Decentralization and the Rise of Independent Unions
City and Periphery, 1960-1980
Repression and Resistance
Epilogue: Common Threads, Past and Present
Notes
Documentary Sources and Interviews
Index