Table of Contents

Building local power: 1970s; power through numbers: 1980-1985; power in unity: 1980-1987; breaking the apartheid mould: 1980-1982; worker action fans out: 1980-1984; melding institutional, campaign and bureaucratic power: 1983-1990; conquest of Metal Industrial Council: 1987-1988; auto workers take power: 1982-1989; auto takes on the industry: 1990-1992; new directions: 1988-1991l defeat of Mawu strategy: 1990-1992; towards a new industry: 1993; the Cinderella sector: 1983-1990; applying vision in auto and motor: 1990-1995; applying vision in engineering: 1994-1995; independent worker movement: 1980-1986; beginnings of alliance politics: 1984-1986; weakening the socialist impulse: Civil war in Natal 1987-1994; Civil war in Transvaal: 1989-1994; new politics: 1987-1990; disinvestment: Pragmatic politics 1985-1989; compromising on socialism: Legacy of the Alliance 1989-1995.

About the Author

Kally Forrest is the editor of the South African Labour Bulletin. She has edited and published a number of popular books on South African trade union histories.