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Organise or Die? : Democracy and Leadership in South Africa's National Union of Mineworkers /
The story of one of the leading trade unions in South Africa, the National Union of Mineworkers, and its role in the struggle against white minority rule. 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 le...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2018
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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.