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White Workers in the Transvaal - A Trade Union Aristocracy: A History of White Workers in the Transvaal and the General Strike of 1913. By Elaine N. Katz. Johannesburg: African Studies Institute, University of the Witwatersrand, 1976. Pp. xii + 601. Soft covers, no price given.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 January 2009

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The Journal of African History , Volume 20 , Issue 1 , January 1979 , pp. 141 - 142
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2 Leubuscher, C., Der südafrikanische Eingeborene als Industriearbeiter und als Stadtbewohner (Jena, 1931)Google Scholar. This substantial study was based on five months' research in South Africa in 1929. The author was a distinguished liberal scholar from Berlin who had written a thesis on the British rail strike of 1911; as a refugee in England, she later wrote critically on the economies of Tanganyika and West Africa. Her book on black workers in South Africa was warmly reviewed by Hoernlé, R. F. A.(Bantu Studies (1931), 270–3)Google Scholar and Werner, Alice (J. African Society (1932), 245–54)Google Scholar, but ignored by van der Horst; of recent writers on the subject, only the Simonses show any awareness of its existence. (A.D.R.)