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Ons voetspore is in Afrika, 207–8 on strikes, 260–1 Beech, Richard, 130, 133–4 ‘super white union‘ and, 180–2 black labour on values, 210, 213–14 as competition for white workers, 1–2 on white victimhood, 194 industrial rights of, 98, 107 role in liberation struggle, 152, 168, 306 ‘calling’ concept, 212, 216, 218, 242, 247, threat of, 93 290–1 black oppression, 2, 36 capitalism, 19, 45, 66–71, 69,77–8, 127–8, black trade unions, 102–3, 112–13; see also 168, 306; see also late capitalism; Congress of South African Trade neoliberalism Unions (COSATU) Carnegie Commission, 54–5, 71 blasting certificates, 44, 73–5, 147–8, 162, Chamber of Mines 174–5, 177, 179 background to, 37–8 Bodenstein, P., 92 blasting certificates, 147–8, 174 Boilermakers’ Society, 135–6 industrial action and, 42 Bond, Fred, 181, 245 MWU and, 105, 113, 172, 198 Boraine, Alex, 96, 102, 110–11 racial division of labour, 43, 49, 71–2 Bornman, Wessel, 87, 104, 126, 128, 153 Rand Revolt (1922), 45–6 Botes, Chris, 122, 123, 138–53 statistics of, 7 Botha, Fanie Christian Nationalism, 56, 204, 212, 215–16 Afrikaner Broederbond and, 107 Christian trade unionism, 210, 212, 216 blasting certificates, 148 Christianity, 72, 246–7, 254 labour reforms, 125–6, 127, 129 Cilliers, Jaap, 133 as Minister of Labour, 101–5, 104 citizenship, 7–8, 20, 27, 40–1, 47, 65, MWU and, 106, 113, 173 118–19, 127, 129, 135, 152–3, 172, TUCSA and, 141 208, 306–7, see also industrial rights; Wiehahn Commission, 108–12, 133, 143 political rights Botha, Louis (General), 40 civil service, 67–8 Botha, P. W., 108, 115, 134, 143, 169–70 ‘civilised labour’ 48–9, 51–5, 57, 128, 172 Brexit, 17–19, 265 class Britain black labour and, 175, 177, 279 Brexit, 17–19, 265 classless volk, 1, 5, 9, 46–7, 70–1, 74, colonial regime of, 119, 152, 226 262–3, 273–4, 288–9, 301–2 elections in, 69, 94–5 middle-class whites, 6, 11, 18–19, 261–2, immigration to, 299 280, 300 industrial action in, 86 MWU/Solidarity and, 243–61, 301–2 labour movements in, 167 race and, 22, 45, 186 migrants from, 38, 41, 56 Cold War, 4, 58, 168 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-83180-2 — Privileged Precariat Danelle van Zyl-Hermann Index More Information 332 Index colonial regimes, 44, 53, 119, 152, 226 economic growth colour bar, 41–2, 46, 48, 52 1970s, 2, 20, 76–8, 114, 151, 306 coloured voters, 49, 118, 134–5 Afrikaner Broederbond and, 97–8, 100 coloured workers, 51, 61, 96, 133–4, 139, after Second World War, 69–70 144, 294 ANC and, 199–200, 210 Commission of Inquiry into Labour financial crisis of 2008, 14, 25, 264–5, 306 Legislation see Wiehahn Commission Golden Age, 66, 69, 76–7, 305–6 commodification of culture, 222, 224–5 Great Depression, 52, 54 communism, 58, 93, 167, 169, 210, National Party and, 66, 68, 80–1, 83–4, 259–60; see also Suppression of 89, 101, 104–5, 169–70 Communism Act (1950) PRP and, 102 compounds, 39–41 recessions, 106, 168, 172 Confederation of Metal and Building state intervention and, 52, 118 Unions, 124 United Party and, 83–4, 88, 177 Congress of South African Trade Unions Wiehahn Commission, 119 (COSATU), 20–1, 152, 168, 170, 197, education, 67, 185–6, 220–1, 231, 234, 210, 282, 306; see also Tripartite 238, 245, 284–5 Alliance elections Conservative Party (CP), 81, 109, 162, 1924 general, 48 177–8, 180 1948 general, 50, 58–60, 188 conservative politics see right-wing politics 1974 general, 94–5 Constitution Act (1983), 135 1981 general, 162, 175 Constitution of South Africa (1996), 303–5 1987 general, 177–8 Co-ordinating Council of South African 1989 general, 177–8 Trade Unions, 63, 87 in Britain, 69 corruption, 24–5, 199–200 by-elections, 101, 162, 174 Cronje, Krappie, 181, 244, 246, 275 European Parliament, 16 crony capitalism, 23–5 electronic communications, 161 cultural identity, 8–9, 165, 247–50 Elisio, Alfieri, 130 cultural turn, 4 Eloff, Theuns, 233 culture, institutional, 243–50, 271–4, 282 embourgeoisement, 5–6, 8–9, 26, 67–8, 70, 121, 130, 305; see also social mobility De Beers Mining Company, 192 employers De Jager, Cor baas–Klaas relationships, 177 Afrikaner Volksfront and, 184 black workers and, 91–2, 144, 149 on baas–Klaas relationships, 176–7 class compromise with state and unions, background and role, 251–2 14 Conservative Party and, 181 conflict with white labour, 42, 47–8, 71, 89 as HNP candidate, 162 job reservation and, 49, 51, 67, 108, 142 on MWU, 175–6, 185, 188 MWU attitude towards, 161, 165, 173, National Party and, 73, 173, 174–5 177, 179–80, 190–1, 270 opposition to labour reform, 172, 175 negotiations with white workers, 72, De Jager, P. R., 92 78–9, 103, 111 De Klerk, F. W., 87, 92, 97–100, 160–2, 180 Solidarity attitude towards, 196, 260–1, De Villiers, Wim, 97, 123 277–9, 283 De Wet, Carel, 73 Wiehahn Commission and, 124, 129, Deacon, Jan, 246 131, 141–2, 144, 149 deindustrialisation, 11, 16 employment equity, 10, 223; see also Department of Labour, 50–1, 79 affirmative action Department of Manpower Utilisation, 117 Engels, Friedrich, 35 desegregation, 162, 182, 183, 198, 268, English 269, 270, 276 dominance, 58, 67, 228, 291 Drummond, Errol, 122, 123, 133, 133, 138 language, 56, 123, 160, 191, 228, 291–3, Du Toit, Chris, 122, 123, 133, 138–53 296 Durban strikes, 90–101, 93, 103, 114, 135 -speakers, 160, 287, 297 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-83180-2 — Privileged Precariat Danelle van Zyl-Hermann Index More Information Index 333 Eskom on community work, 228, 238 Afrikaner business and, 68 on funding, 223–4, 241 MWU and, 191, 268–9, 275, 277–8 on legal action, 192, 218–21 protests against, 183, 269, 277 on Maroela Media, 222 ethnicity, 182, 184, 188–9, 194–5, 226, on MWU, 188–9, 192, 243–8, 250 318–29 on Rand Revolt (1922), 258–60 European Parliament, 16, 236 on socialism, 211–12, 260 exceptionalism of South African transition, on Solidarity, 203–7, 230, 238–9 3, 308 on tipping point dilemma, 291–3 Herstigte Nasionale Party (HNP), 81, 162 farm attacks, 303–5 Hertzog, J.
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