Organise or die? : democracy and leadership in South Africa's National Union of Mineworkers

Organise or die? democracy and leadership in South Africa's National Union of Mineworkers

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Organise or Die? Democracy and Leadership in South Africa's National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) is the first in-depth study of one of the leading trade unions in the country. Founded in 1982, the trade union played a key role in the struggle against white minority rule, before turning into a ce...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Botiveau, Raphaël, author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Johannesburg : Wits University Press 2017.
Edición:1st ed
Materias:
National Union of Mineworkers (South Africa)
Miners > Labor unions > South Africa > History.
Mineral industries > Government policy > South Africa > History.
Labor unions > South Africa > History.
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009637726906719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: South African trade unions in apartheid and democracy
  • Part I. Organisational agency in union bureaucracy and politics. Local weaknesses solved through centralisation
  • The power of head office: building national bureaucracy
  • Doing union politics: the branches as idealised seat of union power
  • The regions as antechambers of national power
  • Part II. Leading mineworkers: a charterist leadership school. The burden of leadership
  • The learning organisation
  • Trajectories of union leaders and NUM leadership ideals
  • Taking control of NUM: the rise of the communist faction
  • Conclusion: from bureaucratic organisation to bureaucratic politics.

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