International Labor and Working-Class History, 2003
Page 1. BOOK REVIEWS Rick Baldoz, Charles Koeber, and Philip Kraft. The Critical Study of Work: L... more Page 1. BOOK REVIEWS Rick Baldoz, Charles Koeber, and Philip Kraft. The Critical Study of Work: La-bor, Technology, and Global Production. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2001. vii + 285 pp. $79.50 cloth; $27.50 paper. ...
Drawing on a wealth of new information made available by the opening of the Comintern archives, D... more Drawing on a wealth of new information made available by the opening of the Comintern archives, Drew sheds the light of hindsight on the relationship between the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) and, in turn, the Soviet Comintern, the South African liberation movement, and the white and black trade union movements in the first half of the twentieth century. This rich book makes a unique contribution to our understanding of ties between the Comintern and its satellite parties as well as the early history of the South African antiapartheid movement. There are only two other major books on this period of party history, and both are memoirs of party members who try to establish a particular version of the record. Drew contests the teleology of their accounts of communist party history and instead weaves a contingent narrative that identifies major turning points that narrowed the possibility for a radical reorientation of the party (p. 281). It was not inevitable that the party wo...
... South African Democracy Revisited: A Reply to Koelble and Reynolds IAN SHAPIRO andCOURTNEY JU... more ... South African Democracy Revisited: A Reply to Koelble and Reynolds IAN SHAPIRO andCOURTNEY JUNG Part of Koelble and Reynolds's ... Strong two-party systems (traditionally associated with first past the post [FPTP] electoral systems) offer one possibility provided there ...
... 3 Anthony Marx, Making Race and Nation: A Comparison of the United States, South Africa and B... more ... 3 Anthony Marx, Making Race and Nation: A Comparison of the United States, South Africa and Brazil (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998); Mahmoud Mamdani, Citizen and Subject (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996); Courtney Jung, Then I was Black ...
International Labor and Working-Class History, 2003
Page 1. BOOK REVIEWS Rick Baldoz, Charles Koeber, and Philip Kraft. The Critical Study of Work: L... more Page 1. BOOK REVIEWS Rick Baldoz, Charles Koeber, and Philip Kraft. The Critical Study of Work: La-bor, Technology, and Global Production. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2001. vii + 285 pp. $79.50 cloth; $27.50 paper. ...
Drawing on a wealth of new information made available by the opening of the Comintern archives, D... more Drawing on a wealth of new information made available by the opening of the Comintern archives, Drew sheds the light of hindsight on the relationship between the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) and, in turn, the Soviet Comintern, the South African liberation movement, and the white and black trade union movements in the first half of the twentieth century. This rich book makes a unique contribution to our understanding of ties between the Comintern and its satellite parties as well as the early history of the South African antiapartheid movement. There are only two other major books on this period of party history, and both are memoirs of party members who try to establish a particular version of the record. Drew contests the teleology of their accounts of communist party history and instead weaves a contingent narrative that identifies major turning points that narrowed the possibility for a radical reorientation of the party (p. 281). It was not inevitable that the party wo...
... South African Democracy Revisited: A Reply to Koelble and Reynolds IAN SHAPIRO andCOURTNEY JU... more ... South African Democracy Revisited: A Reply to Koelble and Reynolds IAN SHAPIRO andCOURTNEY JUNG Part of Koelble and Reynolds's ... Strong two-party systems (traditionally associated with first past the post [FPTP] electoral systems) offer one possibility provided there ...
... 3 Anthony Marx, Making Race and Nation: A Comparison of the United States, South Africa and B... more ... 3 Anthony Marx, Making Race and Nation: A Comparison of the United States, South Africa and Brazil (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998); Mahmoud Mamdani, Citizen and Subject (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996); Courtney Jung, Then I was Black ...
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