Labour Struggles in Southern Africa, 1919-1949

David Johnson is Professor of Literature in the Department of English and Creative Writing at The Open University. He is the author of Shakespeare and South Africa (Clarendon Press, 1996), Imagining the Cape Colony: History, Literature and the South African Nation (Edinburgh University/ UCT Press, 2012) and Dreaming of Freedom in South Africa: Literature between Critique and Utopia (Edinburgh University/ UCT Press, 2019); the principal author of Jurisprudence: A South African Perspective (Butterworths, 2001); the co-editor of A Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures in English (Edinburgh UP, 2008), The Book in Africa: Critical Debates (Palgrave, 2015). Stuart Hood: Twentieth-Century Partisan (Cambridge Scholars, 2021), and 'I See You!' The Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union of Africa, 1919-1930 (HiPSA, 2022). He is the General Editor of the Edinburgh UP series Key Texts in Anti-Colonial Thought.

Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
ICU Map
Introduction
Section A The ICU in Southern Africa
Chapter 1: The ICU, the Mines and the State in South West Africa, 1920-1926: Garveyism, Syndicalism and Global Labour History, Lucien van der Walt.
Chapter 2: The Rabble-rouser: Robert Sambo's ICU Stint in Rhodesia, Anusa Daimon.
Chapter 3: Organising the Unorganised: ICU Internationalism and the Transnational Unionisation of Migrant Workers, Henry Dee.
Section B Local and Regional Histories of the ICU
Chapter 4: The ICU in Free State Dorps and Dorpies, Peter Limb and Chitja Twala
Chapter 5: The ICU and Local Politics: Kroonstad, from the Late 1920s to the 1930s, Tshepo Moloi.
Chapter 6: Trouble Brewing: The ICU, the 1925 Bloemfontein Riots and the Women Question, Nicole Ulrich.
Chapter 7: The ICU in the Western Transvaal, 1926-1934: Re-imagining Ideological, Spatial and Political Realities, Laurence Stewart.
Chapter 8: The ICU in Port-Elizabeth: The Making of a Union-cum-Protest Movement, 1920-1931, Noor Nieftagodien.
Chapter 9: 'Home Truths' and the Political Discourse of the ICU, Phil Bonner.
Section C Factions and Legacies of the ICU
Chapter 10: Leadership Contestations and Worker Mobilisation in the Early Years of the Twentieth Century: Selby Msimang and the ICU, 1919-1921, Sibongiseni Mkhize.
Chapter 11: The Communist Party of South Africa and the ICU, 1923 – 1931, Tom Lodge.
Chapter 12: Elizabeth van Heyningen, Illusion and Disillusion: White Women and the ICU
Chapter 13: The Romance and the Tragedy of the ICU, David Johnson.
About the Editors
Notes
Bibliography
Index