David Johnson, Noor Nieftagodien and Lucien van der Walt (eds.), 2022, Labour Struggles in Southern Africa 1919-1949: New Perspectives on the Industrial and Commercial Workers’ Union (ICU), Cape Town: HSRC Press, 308pp. Materials from the publisher are HERE.
Introduction (David Johnson, Noor Nieftagodien and Lucien van der Walt)
Section A: The ICU in Southern Africa
1. The ICU, the Mines and the State in South West Africa, 1920-1926: Garveyism, Revolutionary Syndicalism and Global Labour History (Lucien van der Walt)
2. The Rabble-Rouser: Robert Sambo’s ICU Stint in Rhodesia (Anusa Daimon)
3. Organising the Unorganised: ICU Internationalism and the Transnational Unionisation of Migrant Workers (Henry Dee)
Section B: Local and Regional Histories of the ICU
5. The ICU and Local Politics: Kroonstad, from the Late 1920s to the 1930s (Tshepo Moloi)
6. Trouble Brewing: The ICU, the 1925 Bloemfontein Riots and the Women Question (Nicole Ulrich)
7. The ICU in the Western Transvaal, 1926–1934: Re-imagining Ideological, Spatial and Political Realities (Laurence Stewart)
8. The ICU in Port Elizabeth: The Making of a Union-cum-Protest Movement, 1920–1931 (Noor Nieftagodien)
9. ‘Home Truths’ and the Political Discourse of the ICU (Phillip Bonner)
Section C: Factions and Legacies of the ICU
10. Leadership Contestations and Worker Mobilisation in the Early Years of the Twentieth Century: Selby Msimang and the ICU, 1919–1921 (Sibongiseni Mkhize)
11. The Communist Party of South Africa and the ICU, 1923–1931 (Tom Lodge)
12. Illusion and Disillusion: White Women and the ICU (Elizabeth van Heyningen)
13. The Romance and the Tragedy of the ICU (David Johnson)
Lucien van der Walt 