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Von Holdt interviews with Highveld Steel trade unionists and William Matlala

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Kind interviews oral history
Producer Karl von Holdt
Coverage 1993-1996
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Black trade unions: growth, wage effects, Wiehahn and strategy 2

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Work As cited Period How used
Von Holdt (2002a) 63 in-depth interviews with 31 trade unionists and former trade unionists at Highveld Steel (shop stewards and rank-and-file activists), 1993-1996 1993-1996 (interviews over three years from 1993) Primary data source for the ethnographic case study of internal union contestation, migrant/local divisions, the strike committee, and post-transition fragmentation; quoted extensively.
Von Holdt (2002a) Discussions with William Matlala, Pedi migrant worker, labour photographer and former shop steward not stated Source of insights on kgoro, sjambok discipline and Pedi notions of solidarity.
Von Holdt (2002b) 63 in-depth interviews with 31 trade unionists and former trade unionists at Highveld Steel (NUMSA shop stewards and rank and file activists) 1993-1996 (three-year period starting 1993) Primary evidence for union social structure, migrant/township conflict, strike committee, and the post-1994 fragmentation of solidarity.
Von Holdt (2002b) Discussions with William Matlala (Pedi migrant worker, labour photographer, former shop steward and hostel dweller) not specified Source of insights on the kgoro, the sjambok and Pedi notions of male discipline in union solidarity.