Reforming apartheid's industrial relations system?: state, capital and African workers of Durban, 1973-1979

Abstract

By the beginning of the 1970s, South Africa's industrial relations had been structured along racial lines: while white, coloured and Indian trade unions were recognised, African unions were wholly excluded. African workers were, however, represented by the State Labour Department officials and/or by registered unions on some industrial councils where wage rates and conditions were negotiated.