243pp., b/w & colour illus., map. hardback, d.w. Cape Town, 2022
History of the ICU, the first major black trade union in Southern Africa, recounted through a selection of newspaper articles pamphlets, letters, poems, speeches, cartoons and memoirs.
David Johnson is Professor of Literature at The Open University. His books include Shakespeare and South Africa; Imagining the Cape Colony: History, literature and the South African Nation and Dreaming of Freedom in South Africa: Literature between critique and utopia.
Henry Dee is a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Glasgow.