Labour, liberation movement and left periodicals¶

Literature › Primary sources


Kind	newspapers periodicals
Producer	Various movements and unions
Coverage	1920s-1987
Works using it	6

Debates¶

Debate	Works
Resistance and liberation movements	3
Black trade unions: growth, wage effects, Wiehahn and strategy	3
The job colour bar, white labour and its erosion	2
Historiographical approaches	1
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth?	1
Worker consciousness, strikes and conflict on the mines and shop floor	1

Works using this source¶

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Callinicos (1990)	Weekend World, Abasebenzi, South African Labour Bulletin, Learn and Teach and Upbeat popular periodicals	1970s-1980s	Cited as outlets for popular history writing.
Gibson (1988)	Frank Talk (AZAPO journal), 1981-1987 issues including Vol. 1 Nos. 5-6 and Vol. 2 Sept. 1987	1981-1987	Shows AZAPO's shift to 'scientific socialism', black nationalism and the vanguard party concept.
Lewis (1984b)	Trade union and labour journals and newspapers (The Crucible, S.A. Worker, The Steelworker, Power, Garment Worker, Forward, Guardian, Inkululeko, South African Worker etc.)	1920s-1956	Evidence on union ideology, ISTA rhetoric, strikes, African union activity and anti-communism.
Lewis (1990)	FOSATU Worker News labor history series (early 1980s)	early 1980s	Cited as evidence that trade unions spread labor history to a wide readership, not as a source for historical claims.
Lichtenstein (2004)	Newspapers and periodicals: Guardian (1948), Inkululeko (1948), Workers' Unity (1979), Miami Tribune (1937), The Crisis (1942), New Statesman and Nation (1951), Opportunity (1944), A Monthly Summary of Events and Trends in Race Relations	1937-1979	Used for contemporary statements by unionists and observers (Wolfson, Davidson, Weaver, Townsend) and for the Miami ILA strike.
Swilling (1987)	Movement and press publications: Isizwe, Inqaba, Socialist Worker Review, New Era, Weekly Mail, community newspapers	1984-1986	Used for activists' statements, leadership biographies and the ideological positions of socialists within the UDF.