COSATU/FOSATU statements, resolutions and publications

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	union or movement records
Producer	COSATU/FOSATU
Coverage	1982-1989
Works using it	3

Debates

Debate	Works
Black trade unions: growth, wage effects, Wiehahn and strategy	2
Why apartheid ended: reform, transition and elite bargaining	1
Historiographical approaches	1

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Callinicos (1990)	Trade union publications (COSATU Political Economy: South Africa in Crisis 1987; NUM Five Brave Days 1986; NUMSA Women Organize!)	1986-1989	Used as evidence that unions publish their own labor histories and education material.
Hirschsohn (1996)	ROAPE 1986, Congress of South African Trade Unions (founding mission quotation)	1986	Quoted to show COSATU's founding mission as a basis for corporatist engagement.
Hirschsohn (1998)	COSATU (1987), 'COSATU 1987: From the Executive Committee', Review of African Political Economy 39	1987	Documents the COSATU Executive Committee's encouragement of affiliates to strengthen community ties and to form street committees.
Hirschsohn (1998)	COSATU/FOSATU statements, congress resolutions and leaders' speeches (FOSATU 1982 Congress policy statement; Jay Naidoo; Ramaphosa 1985; COSATU May 1988 special congress)	1982–1988	Quoted to show the evolving political stance of the unions and the adoption of the Freedom Charter; all are secondhand citations.