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Organise or die? : democracy and leadership in South Africa's National Union of Mineworkers /

"Organise or Die? Leadership in South Africa's National Union of Mineworkers from Apartheid to Democracy is the first in-depth study of one of the leading trade unions in the country. Founded in 1982, the trade union played a key role in the struggle against white minority rule, before tur...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Botiveau, Raphaël
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Johannesburg : WITS University Press, 2017.
Subjects:
National Union of Mineworkers (South Africa)
Labor unions > South Africa.
Labor movement > South Africa.
Syndicats > Afrique du Sud.
Mouvement ouvrier > Afrique du Sud.
HISTORY > Africa > General.
Labor movement.
Labor unions.
South Africa.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: South African trade unions in apartheid and democracy
  • Part I. Organisational agency in union bureaucracy and politics. Local weaknesses solved through centralisation
  • The power of head office: building national bureaucracy
  • Doing union politics: the branches as idealised seat of union power
  • The regions as antechambers of national power
  • Part II. Leading mineworkers: a charterist leadership school. The burden of leadership
  • The learning organisation
  • Trajectories of union leaders and NUM leadership ideals
  • Taking control of NUM: the rise of the communist faction
  • Conclusion: from bureaucratic organisation to bureaucratic politics.