• CAST IN A RACIAL MOULD, labour process and trade unionism in the foundries, with a new foreword by Michael Burawoy

CAST IN A RACIAL MOULD, labour process and trade unionism in the foundries, with a new foreword by Michael Burawoy

: Webster (E.)

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299pp., illus., paperback, New Edition, Wits University Press, Johannesburg, (1985) 2025

ISBN: 9781776149612

 

Historical analysis of labour relations and worker resistance in South Africa's metal industry, and how the struggle in the townships after 1976 forced state reforms through the Wiehahn and Riekert commissions. First published by Ravan Press in 1985, this edition includes a new foreword by Michael Burawoy. 

Edward Webster was a Research Professor in the Southern Centre for Inequality and founder of the Society, Work and Development Institute Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand. He died in 2024.

Michael Burawoy was Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, and former President of the International Sociological Association.