Collection African Labour
History
Period
1900-1999
Total size
12 m.
Consultation
Not restricted
Content
Correspondence, lectures, articles and other
documents, written and collected by Robin Cohen and Robert Fine, staff members
of Warwick University 1931-1999; documents concerning Angola, Botswana, Eastern
Africa, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria and North and North-Eastern Africa
1959-1995; on Lesotho, Malawi, Southern Africa and Zambia 1940-1994; on
agriculture, economics and industry, education and youth, historiography,
journalism and journals, labour, race and politics, theology, trade unions and
women in South Africa 1900-1994; on West Africa 1947-1987; on Zimbabwe
1967-1981.
NB. Originally collected by the Centre of African Studies,
Warwick University, Great Britain.
Processing information
List
made by Mehmet Bilgen in 2004
Secondary creator
Warwick University, Centre of African
Studies
INTRODUCTION
This
collection on African Labour History has been received by the IISH from the
Centre of African Studies, Warwick University in 2000. The collection consists
mainly of journals, reprints, papers, press clippings, printed and photocopied
documents, or rather documentation. Documents have been arranged by theme or
subject according to an existing handwritten list. Periodicals and books as far
as they didn't belong to a specific file have been transferred to the library
of the IISH.
The size of the collection is 12 m.
LIST
African studies and Pan African
literature
Papers of staff members of the
Warwick University
Robin Cohen
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1-4
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Correspondence, lectures,
articles and other documents collected and written by
Robin
Cohen
.
1931-1997.
4 boxes.
-
5-13
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Academic papers on African
and Pan-African subjects.
1956- 1981.
9 boxes.
NB. Alphabetically
arranged by author.
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5
-
A-Ba.
1969-1979.
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6
-
Bb-Cu.
1968-1979.
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7
-
D-Ha.
1965-1981.
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8
-
He-Ke.
1966-1980.
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9
-
Ki-Me.
1967-1980.
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10
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M-Pl.
1964-1980.
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11
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Po-Sa.
1969-1980.
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12
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Sp-U.
1960-1980.
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13
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V-Z.
1956-1979.
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14
-
Academic papers on African
and Pan-African subjects.
1967- 1983.
1 box.
-
15-16
-
Documents relating to the
Racial and Ethnic Studies
.
1969-1999.
2 boxes.
-
17-18
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Correspondence, minutes
of editorial meetings, editorial notes and other documents relating to the
Review of African Political Economy (RAPE)
.
1972-
1989.
2 boxes.
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19
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Documents concerning
Newsletter on International Labour Studies (NILS)
.
1975-1983.
1 box.
-
20
-
Documents concerning the
Third World.
1975- 1988.
1 box.
-
21
-
Papers delivered at the
Conference of the
Review of African Political Economy
.
1989.
1 box.
Robert Fine
-
22-23
-
Documents written and
collected by Robert Fine.
1976- 1993.
2 boxes.
Other documents
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24
-
Library holdings of
the Chr. Michelsen Institute
in Norway concerning
Pan-African literature.
1992.
1 box.
Botswana
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25-26
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Various government
publications.
1974-1992.
2 boxes.
-
27
-
Academic papers concerning
agricultural and other miscellaneous issues relating to Botswana.
1978-1983.
1 box.
-
28
-
Academic papers concerning
Botswana.
1979- 1993.
1 box.
Eastern Africa
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29-33
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Documents concerning Eastern
Africa.
1967- 1995.
5 folders.
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29
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Kenya.
1972-1986.
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30
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Madagascar.
1982.
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31
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Tanzania.
1967-1975.
-
32
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Uganda.
1986.
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33
-
Other documents.
1974- 1995.
Mozambique and Angola
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34
-
Academic papers on Mozambique.
1972-1988.
1 folder.
-
35
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Publications by the
Committee for freedom in Mozambique, Angola and Guinea
.
1973-1974.
1 folder.
-
36
-
Papers by the
Toronto
Committee for the liberation of Portuguese African Colonies
.
1974.
1 folder.
-
37
-
Copies of
MPLA for
Angola
published by the
Angola Solidarity
Committee
.
1975-1976.
1 folder.
-
38
-
Other documents concerning
Mozambique.
1971- 1973.
1 folder.
-
39
-
Other documents concerning
Angola.
1971- 1991.
1 folder.
Namibia
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40
-
Publications by
the
South West Africa People's Organisation (SWAPO)
in Namibia.
1977-1982.
1 folder.
-
41
-
Academic papers on various
subjects concerning Namibia.
1977- 1991.
1 folder.
-
42
-
Publications by the
Namibian Support Committee
.
1979-1992.
1 folder.
-
43
-
Publications by the campaign to
stop the war against Angola and Mozambique (SWAM).
1981-1982.
1 folder.
-
44
-
Other documents concerning
Namibia.
1974- 1990.
1 folder.
Nigeria
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45
-
Academic papers on urban issues
and demography.
1959- 1985.
1 folder.
-
46
-
Various documents concerning
trade unions.
1962- 1979
1 folder.
-
47
-
Copies of the
Afro
Research Bulletin
, published by
International Confederation
of Trade Unions
.
1963- 1967.
1 folder.
-
48
-
Year books and other
publications on Nigeria.
1963- 1971.
1 box.
-
49
-
Press clippings on trade union
and industrial relations, with governmental publications.
1965-1971.
1 box.
-
50
-
Reports by the
Nigerian Workers' Council
and copies of
The voice
of Labour
.
1966-1970.
1 folder.
-
51
-
Academic papers on economy.
1966-1981.
1 folder.
-
52
-
Various publications by the
United Labour Congress of Nigeria
, including copies of
ULCN Information
.
1967-1970.
1 folder.
-
53
-
Various publications by the
Nigerian Trade Union Congress
.
1967-1970.
1 folder.
-
54
-
Various publications by the
Nigerian Union of Bank, Insurance and Allied Workers
.
1968-1972.
1 folder.
-
55
-
Academic papers on politic from
colonial times to the 80's.
1968- 1973.
1 cover.
-
56
-
Documents concerning trade
unions.
1971- 1978.
1 folder.
-
57
-
Academic papers on labour.
1973-1987.
1 folder.
-
58
-
Academic papers on agriculture.
1974-1982.
1 folder.
-
59
-
Copies of two studies:
Division and Unity in a Third World Working Class: Unionism in the
[Cargo Handling]
by
P. Waterman
and
The
Social Structure of Contemporary Nigerian Society
by
A.
Akiwowo
and
A. Obediyi
.
1979-
1985.
1 box.
North and North-Eastern
Africa
-
60-63
-
Documents concerning North
and North-Eastern Africa.
1969- 1994.
3 folders and 1 cover.
-
60
-
Egypt, Algeria, Tunisia and
Morocco.
1969- 1987.
-
61
-
Ethiopia.
1986-
1988.
(cover)
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62
-
Eritrea.
1987-1989.
-
63
-
Sudan.
1992-1994.
South Africa
Agriculture
-
64-65
-
Documents concerning
agriculture, farm labour and land issues.
1913-
1987.
2 folders.
Economics and
industry
-
66
-
Documents concerning the
native wages and the cost of living.
1917-
1938.
1 folder.
-
67
-
Documents relating to the
mining industry.
1918- 1985.
1 box.
-
68
-
Documents relating to the
Native Economic Commission
. With documents concerning
other economic topics.
1932-1938.
1 folder.
-
69
-
Documents relating to metal
industries.
1946- 1978.
1 folder.
-
70
-
Photocopy of articles on the
Industrial Development Corporation
.
1960,
1975.
1 folder.
-
71
-
Documents concerning foreign
capital flow, with various publications by the
Anglo-American
Corporation
.
1963- 1993.
1 box.
-
72-73
-
Documents on foreign
investments in South Africa.
1970- 1994.
2 folders.
-
74
-
Documents concerning wages,
export, industry and the economic sanctions against South Africa.
1971-1989.
1 box.
-
75
-
Annual reports by the
Cape Chamber of Industries
and the
South African
Federated Chamber of Industries
.
1976-1979.
1 folder.
-
76
-
Documents of the workshop on
South Africa: Towards a Post-apartheid Economy.
1987-1990.
1 folder.
-
77
-
Various documents concerning
economy and industry.
1941- 1994.
1 box.
Education and youth
-
78-79
-
Documents concerning
education and youth in South Africa.
1963-
1991.
2 boxes.
Historiography
-
80
-
Documents concerning
historiography of South Africa.
1974- 1983.
1 folder.
Journalism and
journals
-
81
-
Photocopies from
Umtelei Wa Bantu
.
1924- 1930.
1 cover.
-
82-86
-
Press clippings on South
Africa.
1961-1973.
5 boxes.
-
87-88
-
Various periodicals on
South Africa.
1965- 1992.
2 boxes.
-
89
-
Other documentation on South
Africa.
1960- 1985.
1 cover.
Labour
-
90
-
Reports on parliamentary
debates and other documents concerning labour.
1913-1919.
1 folder.
-
91
-
Academic papers on labour
issues.
1920-1978.
1 box.
-
92
-
Documents concerning the
Civilised Labour Policy.
1927- 1935.
1 folder.
-
93
-
Copy of the
Report of
the Industrial Legislation Commission of Enquiry
.
1951.
1 cover.
-
94
-
Documents concerning migrant
labour.
1960- 1984.
1 cover.
-
95
-
Government reports on Labour
Legislation and related issues.
1966- 1979.
1 cover.
-
96
-
Documents relating to the
Bantu Laws' Amendment Bill and the Bantu Labour Relations Regulation.
1969-1976.
1 folder.
-
97
-
Documents concerning labour
legislation.
1973- 1988.
1 folder.
-
98
-
Document concerning migrant
labour in the colonial period.
1974- 1985.
1 folder.
-
99
-
Academic papers on worker
consciousness and worker organisation throughout the 19th and 20th century.
1974-1988.
1 folder.
-
100
-
Publications of the
International Labour Office (ILO)
.
1975-1978.
1 folder.
-
101
-
Documents concerning
Wiehahn and Riekert Commission
.
1977-1980.
1 folder.
-
102
-
Documents concerning labour
disputes with British companies in South Africa.
1977-1987.
1 folder.
-
103
-
Black Working Class
Consciousness and Resistance in South Africa
an academic thesis by
R.V. Lambert
.
1978.
1 cover.
-
104-105
-
Other documents on
labour.
1913-1990.
2 boxes.
Race and politics
-
106
-
Documents on the native
problem covering the colonial period in South Africa.
1901 and
n.d.
1 folder.
-
107
-
Documentation on race
question, concerning MacMillan, South African Party and various issues.
1904-1936.
1 cover.
-
108
-
Copies of articles written by
L. Haden Guest
concerning race issues.
1905-1906.
1 folder.
-
109-110
-
Correspondence by
J. Merriman
.
1906- 1925.
2 folders.
-
111
-
Documents concerning the
Natal Labour Party
.
1908.
1 folder.
-
112
-
Documents from the
Native Affairs Society of the Transvaal
.
1908-1911.
1 folder.
-
113-114
-
Documents by
R.F. Alfred Hoernlé
.
1908-
1943.
2 folders.
-
115
-
Correspondence by
R. Bell
.
1909- 1926.
1 folder.
-
116
-
Documents concerning American
Negroes and South African Bantus.
1909-1935.
1 folder.
-
117
-
Documents concerning the poor
whites in South Africa.
1911- 1934.
1 folder.
-
118
-
Documents by
Joseph
M. Orpen
, including copies of some correspondence.
1913-1933.
1 folder.
-
119
-
Correspondence by
Patrick Duncan
.
1913-
1939.
1 folder.
-
120
-
Documents by
C.T.
Loram
.
1917- 1937.
1 folder.
-
121
-
Documents on and by
J.D. Reinhalt Jones
.
1918-1953.
1 folder.
-
122
-
Academic papers on
bolshevism, Communist Party and socialism.
1919-1922.
1 box.
-
123
-
Documents on and by
William Miller MacMillan
.
1919-1969.
1 cover.
-
124
-
Documents concerning the
Colour Bar Act.
1920- 1926.
1 folder.
-
125
-
Documents on the
South African Party
.
1920-1928.
1 folder.
-
126
-
Documents concerning the
Joint Council of European and Natives
.
1925-1936.
1 folder.
-
127-128
-
Documents concerning
urban policy and resettlement in South Africa.
1925-1990.
2 folders.
-
129
-
Documents concerning
Hertzog
's First Native Bills.
1926-1936.
1 box.
-
130
-
Documents relating to
Afrikaner attacks on SAIRR.
1926- 1955.
1 folder.
-
131
-
Documents concerning the
Bantu welfare and the
Pietermaritzburg Native Welfare
Society
.
1929-1937.
1 folder.
-
132
-
Documents concerning the All
African Convention.
1931- 1985.
1 folder.
-
133
-
Documents on prohibition.
1935-1938.
1 folder.
-
134
-
Documents concerning
South African Institute of Race Relations (SAIRR)
, the
franchising and
Rheinalt Jones
.
1936-1937.
1 folder.
-
135
-
Documents concerning
liberalism and liberal policy.
1936- 1967.
1 folder.
-
136
-
Documents concerning Indians
in South Africa.
1946- 1985.
1 folder.
-
137-138
-
Documents concerning the
African National Congress (ANC)
.
1947-1991.
2 folders.
-
139-140
-
Documents on segregation,
apartheid and the 'coloured problem'.
1951-1983.
2 folders.
-
141
-
Documents concerning politics
in the 1950's.
1953- 1987.
1 cover.
-
142
-
Documents concerning the
Congress of the People.
1954- 1987.
1 folder.
-
143
-
Documents concerning the
resistance in the 1950's and the
Stay-Aways, the Defiance
Campaign
and the Witzieshock Rebellions.
1956-
1987.
1 folder.
-
144
-
Documents concerning the
Freedom Carter.
1959- 1985.
1 folder.
-
145
-
Documents concerning the
resistance in the 1960's.
1960- 1971.
1 folder.
-
146
-
Documents concerning state
violence, police detention, torture.
1960-
1986.
1 box.
-
147
-
Documents concerning the rule
of law, criminal and popular justice.
1960-1986.
1 box.
-
148
-
Documents concerning
political activities in the 1960's.
1960-
1986.
1 folder.
-
149
-
Documents concerning
political trials in South Africa.
1961- 1979.
1 folder.
-
150
-
Academic papers on race and
politics.
1964- 1980.
1 cover.
-
151
-
Documents concerning the
Soweto
uprising.
1970-1979.
1 folder.
-
152
-
Documents concerning the
National Party
.
1972.
1 folder.
-
153
-
Documents concerning Natal
covering the 19th and 20th centuries.
1972-1975.
1 folder.
-
154
-
Academic papers on race and
class issues.
1973- 1979.
1 cover.
-
155
-
Academic papers in the
1970's.
1973-1979.
1 cover.
-
156
-
Documents concerning the
armed struggle.
1973- 1991.
1 folder.
-
157
-
Documents concerning Kwa-Zulu
and
M. Gatsha Buthelezi
.
1975-1990.
1 folder.
-
158
-
Reports into
Alleged
irregularities in the former Department of Information
.
1978-1979.
1 folder.
-
159
-
Documentation on the far
left.
1978-1991.
1 box.
-
160
-
Documents relating the
Progressive Federal Party
.
1979-1980.
1 folder.
-
161
-
Documents concerning race
issues.
1980- 1988.
1 folder.
-
162
-
Documents concerning
political issues of local nature.
1980- 1988.
1 folder.
-
163
-
Documents concerning broader
political issues.
1983- 1991.
1 folder.
-
164
-
Documents concerning the
South African state in the 80's.
1984- 1989.
1 folder.
-
165
-
Copy of
The making of
an African Working Class on the Witwatersrand: Class and Community
, by
Bertram Hirson
.
1986.
1 folder.
-
166
-
Documents concerning the race
question in 1950's.
1987.
1 folder.
-
167
-
Publications by the
New Unity Movement
.
1987- 1991.
1 folder.
-
168-169
-
Other various documents
concerning race and politics.
1901- 1969.
2 boxes.
Theology
-
170-174
-
Documents concerning
theological issues.
1900- 1989.
5 folders.
Trade unions
-
175
-
Documents relating to white
trade unions.
1938- 1991.
1 folder.
-
176-177
-
Press clippings from Zulu
papers and some translations on trade unions.
1942-1949.
2 folder.
-
178
-
Documents relating to actions
by the construction and mineworkers.
1945-1947.
1 folder.
-
179
-
Academic papers on trade
unions in the 20th Century.
1973- 1980.
1 folder.
-
180-181
-
Academic papers on trade
unions in the 1920's and 1940's.
1974- 1985.
2 folders.
-
182
-
Documents concerning
relations between British and South African trade unions.
1974-1987.
1 folder.
-
183
-
Various documents relating to
the
South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU)
.
1976-1985.
1 folder.
-
184
-
Publications by the
National Union of Mineworkers (NUM)
.
1977-1989.
1 folder.
-
185
-
Publications of the
Council of Unions of South Africa (CUSA)
.
1980-1981.
1 folder.
-
186
-
Publications by the
Federation of South African Trade Unions (FOSATU)
.
1980-1985.
1 folder.
-
187
-
Trade unions and the struggle
for liberation in S.A., draft of a book by P. Kunene.
1982.
1 folder.
-
188
-
Document by the
Commercial and Allied Workers Union of S.A. (CCAWUSA)
,
Allied Workers Union of S.A. (MAWU)
and
S.A.
Domestic Workers Union (SADWU)
.
1983-1990.
1 folder.
-
189
-
Documents relating to the
Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU)
.
1985-1991.
1 box.
-
190
-
Documents concerning the
Confederation of Trade Unions Coordinating Committee Southern
Africa
.
1990- 1992.
1 folder.
-
191-196
-
Other documents relating
to trade unions.
1953- 1989.
5 folders.
-
191
-
1940's.
-
192
-
1950's.
-
193
-
1970's.
-
194-196
-
1980's.
Women
-
197-198
-
Documents concerning
women in South Africa.
1913- 1990.
2 folders.
Southern Africa, Zambia, Lesotho and
Malawi
-
199
-
Documents concerning Zambia.
1940-1981.
1 folder.
-
200
-
Documents concerning Lesotho.
1965-1988.
1 folder.
-
201
-
Documents concerning Malawi.
1973-1982.
1 folder.
-
202-203
-
Academic papers on Southern
Africa. With documentation.
1974- 1994.
2 folders.
West Africa
-
204-208
-
Documents concerning West
Africa.
1947- 1987.
5 folders.
-
204
-
Gambia.
1964-1971.
-
205
-
Ghana.
1947-1983.
-
206
-
Sierra Leone.
1960-1984.
-
207
-
Ivory Coast, Liberia, Guinea
and Tonga.
1974- 1987.
-
208
-
Other documents.
1960- 1975.
Zimbabwe
-
209
-
Documents concerning the oil
sanctions against Rhodesia.
1977.
1 folder.
-
210
-
Copies of
Zig
Bulletin
, published by the
Zimbabwe Information
Group
.
1977-1980.
1 folder.
-
211
-
Report on the Supply of
Petroleum Products to Rhodesia
by
T.H. Bingham
and
S.M. Gray
.
1978.
1 cover.
-
212
-
Copies of
The Zimbabwe
Worker
.
1978- 1979.
1 folder.
-
213
-
Papers from the conference on
Zimbabwe at Leeds University.
1980.
1 folder.
-
214-216
-
Various academic papers
concerning Zimbabwe.
1967- 1980.
3 folders.
-
217
-
Various publications relating
to Zimbabwe.
1972- 1981.
1 folder.
-
218
-
Press clippings on Zimbabwe.
1978-1979.
1 folder.
Other continents
-
219
-
Various documents on Europe.
1976-1992.
1 folder.
-
220-221
-
Various documents on the
Americas and the Caribbean.
1976- 1993.
2 folders.
-
222
-
Documents on Asia, Australia
and Pacific.
1977- 1988.
1 box.
