Karin A. Shapiro

History from South Africa : alternative visions and practices

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Black prisoners and their world, Alabama, 1865-1900

This study draws on a variety of sources, including the reports and correspondence of prison inspectors and letters from prisoners and their families, to explore the history of the African-American men and women whose labour made Alabamas prison system the most profitable in the country.

Company town, company estate: Pilgrim's Rest, 1910–1932

This study of Pilgrims Rest seeks to fill an historiographical gap by exploring labour relations on the periphery of the gold mining industry. The experience of Pilgrims Rest presents a distinctive South African wrinkle to the international phenomenon of companies’ trying to order and control the lives of their employees outside of work. The dominant gold‐mining company in the eastern Transvaal, Transvaal Gold Mining Estates, faced intense competition for labour from the Witwatersrand. To secure a stable and compliant workforce, Transvaal Gold Mining Estates established a company town for its white workers, and more notably, a company estate for its black labour force. Neither mechanism provided Transvaal Gold Mining Estates with complete control over its employees. White workers, as citizens of South Africa, found they could appeal to high‐ranking state officials to intervene in local matters. Unlike the whites, who tried to secure their position as industrial workers, black employees strove to maintai...

No exit? Emigration policy and the consolidation of Apartheid

Emigration policy in post-1948 South Africa functioned as both a tool of oppression and a safety valve, at once a mechanism to punish Apartheid’s staunchest political opponents and a mechanism for dissipating white opposition to National Party policies. This article examines the National Party’s policy toward emigration in the 1950s and 1960s, exploring the role of travel documents in the evolving National Party strategy for maintaining, and even extending, its control over internal political opponents. At no point, however, could the Minister of the Interior simply impose his will without facing innovative challenges to the law. Anti-apartheid figures repeatedly sought to test emigration provisions in the courts and nullify their effects. The Government developed its emigration policy by deciding individual applications on a case-by-case basis, rather than articulating ‘coherent’ public guidelines. It further believed that citizens did not have a right to a passport and that travellers constituted ‘quasi-diplomats’. This formulation, along with the requirement that black South Africans provide a substantial deposit before travelling abroad, speaks to the apartheid Government’s complex notions of racially based citizenship.

Doing Time in the Depression: Everyday Life in Texas and California Prisons

Despite their shortcomings, these brave books should be read by all those who worry about labor’s future. Geoghegan and Aronowitz do not offer plans likely to “save us.” But by venturing their analyses and proposals—flaws and all—these two smart and experienced participant-observers do at least help clarify the immensity of the problem before us. For that, they deserve our respect and gratitude.