Bill Freund
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3585706 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Bill Freund |
| PRENOMES | Bill |
| SOBRENOME | Freund |
| ASSINATURA | FREUND B |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of KwaZulu-Natal |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 135 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 405 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 134 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1978 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 11 |
Development and Class Struggle
"South Africa, my home"
The Southern Journal of Contemporary History is privileged to feature an extract of Bill Freund’s autobiography courtesy of Wits University Press, who gave us permission to reproduce the extract and Professor Patrick Bond, who assisted in making this possible. William Mark “Bill” Freund (6 July 1944 – 17 August 2020) was an American academic historian who was particularly known as an authority on Africa’s economic and labour history with a partic…
The ANC in the struggle and in power
The end of apartheid was not just a godsend: it was a utopian moment for many, and South Africa’s subsequent failure to live up to dreams and hopes has proven a huge disappointment. The African Nat
Trade Unions
Trade Unions
This chapter will consider three phases in the history of African trade unions. The first is the organizational antecedents of trade unions. The second is unions structured along the lines of the formations in industrial societies. Unions began largely through the activities of expatriate or racial minorities, such as Greeks in Egypt, Indians in Kenya or white immigrants in South Africa. However, the native workforce learned from this model and b…
Nineteen Trade Unions
General Labour History of Africa
Twentieth-Century South Africa
The twentieth century has brought considerable political, social, and economic change for South Africa. While many would choose to focus only on the issues of race, segregation, and apartheid, this book tries to capture another facet: its drive towards modernisation and industrialisation. While considering the achievements and failures of that drive, as well as how it related to ethnic and racial policy making, Bill Freund makes the economic data…
On Durban’s Docks
David Hemson put the dockworkers of Durban, South Africa’s chief port, on the historical map in a doctoral thesis and some important shorter writing, convincingly demonstrating the organizational capacity and militancy of these migrants from Zululand, Durban’s hinterland. Now Ralph Callebert returns to this scene and reconsiders the historical place of the dockers. While he does not dispute Hemson’s story, he rejects Hemson’s sense of where this …
Sana Aiyar. Indians in Kenya
In a once widely used study focused on Southeast Asia, J. S. Furnivall looked at the “plural societies,” officially divided by religion, race, and ethnic affiliation, that lived separately but met peacefully in the marketplace in colonies. Nationalists who aimed at overturning colonialism did not look kindly on this kind of pluralism where segregatory legislation was coupled with culturally rooted patterns of identity and orientation, and minorit…
Taken for a ride
In Taken for a ride, SOAS lecturer Matteo Rizzo takes you for a trip to the burgeoning East African metropolis of Dar es Salaam and explores the dala dala (minibus) system which has in recent years
Introduction. Work across Africa
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Material and Cultural Development in Africa before the Nineteenth Century
Tropical Africa, 1960–80
Democracies, Dictatorships and Disasters
Southern Africa
The Material Basis of Colonial Society, 1900–40
Structural Adjustment Kicks In
Industrialisation and South African Society, 1900–48
The Conquest of Africa
The European Intrusion in the Era of Merchant Capital
The Era of Legitimate Commerce, 1800–70
Africanist History and the History of Africa
The Modes of Production Debate in African Studies
Race for Education
Race for Education is Mark Hunter’s second book on South Africa and is the fruit of now well over two decades of research. While it can be described as fitting into the rubric of sociology of educa
The Making of Contemporary Africa
The Making of Contemporary Africa eamines the complex events in Sub- Saharan Africa since the eighteenth century, in the light of scholarly appraisal in recent years. The themes of class and labour ar
Capitalism and Colonialism in Mozambique
Tanzania
Preface Introduction to the Second Edition: The Political Economy of Tanzania Revisited PART I: INTRODUCTION 1. Nyerere's Tanzania 2. Tanzania and the International Economy PART II: DEVELOPMENT AND UNDERDEVELOPMENT BEFORE 1900 3. The Interior 4. Zanzibar and the Coast 5. The German Conquest PART III: THE COLONIAL SYSTEM 6. The German Colony 7. Agricultural Production under the British 8. Agricultural Marketing and Co-Operatives 9. Non-Industriali…
Taken for a ride
In Taken for a ride, SOAS lecturer Matteo Rizzo takes you for a trip to the burgeoning East African metropolis of Dar es Salaam and explores the dala dala (minibus) system which has in recent years
Saviors and Survivors; Darfur, Politics and the War on Terror
African Labor History
The making of the railways, the growth of African trade unionism, the reaction of employers, and strikes against the multinationals are the kind of topics in African history addressed by this collection of essays
South Africa
Recent South African policy making at the highest level has used the language of the developmental state. It has been used as a means of understanding and defining the purpose of ANC government. This article interrogates that concept, especially using the formation of an elite transcending the publicprivate sector divide and considering the concept of an ‘embedded elite’. In this light, the evolution of Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) policies a…
The Making of Contemporary Africa
The Making of Contemporary Africa provides a reinterpretation of the events in sub-Saharan Africa since the eighteenth century. It also serves as an introduction to the history of modern Africa, incorporating in the text a critical appraisal of the best scholarship in recent years
Labor and Labor History in Africa
No subject has in recent years so intruded into the scholarly literature on Africa as the African worker. Labor has become a fundamental issue to those who seek to develop African economies or to revolutionize African polities. The elucidation and debate about the relationship of labor to historical and social issues is currently under way over an impressive range of places and in a number of languages. It is thus highly appropriate at this junct…
General Labour History of Africa
The South African War; The Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902
Insiders and Outsiders
Contrasts in Urban Segregation
This paper attempts to compare two major African cities in terms of the development and breakdown of racial segregation. There is a deliberate attempt to understand Durban through a comparative look at Abidjan, a port city of roughly equivalent size. The chief features of Durban's historical development are reviewed before the article turns to an equivalent examination of Abidjan's history. Abidjan, like Durban, was subjected to colonial policies…
Brown and Green in Durban
This article concerns the politics of environmental policy as it has been evolving in the South African city of Durban. How has the end of apartheid impacted on environmental issues and concerns? Since 1994 (actually 1996 from the standpoint of local government), the transition to democracy has brought about a shift from purely green policy to the growing salience of what we may call brown issues. The article first considers the elements of what …
The Making of Contemporary Africa
The Long Transition; Building Socialism in Tanzania
Insiders and Outsiders
West African Diamonds 1919-83
Forced resettlement and the political economy of South Africa
Apart perhaps from the direct confrontations that take place between capital and labour, the most significant social process in recent South African history has been the continued and massive population removals. The South African government has at times insisted that such removals were fundamentally voluntary in character. Since the often bitterly resisted removals of the 1950s from both urban and rural areas, however, force has at least potenti…
Oil boom and crisis in contemporary Nigeria
Nothing has perhaps confounded believers in the oil dream more than the recent setbacks to Western interests in Iran, the world's second largest oil exporter, whose Shah was not long ago predicting the rise of Iran as the fifth economic power in the world by the end of this century. At present (February 1979), the extent to which social contradictions were intolerably heightened by the oil export boom and the hollowness of the Shah's boast are on…
Insiders and Outsiders
The incorporation of Northern Nigeria into the world capitalist economy
Recent historical writing on Northern Nigeria has celebrated African entre‐preneurship and even an alleged ‘bourgeois revolution’. This paper offers an alternative account of the way in which Northern Nigeria was incorporated into the world capitalist economy. A merchant bourgeoisie has been important to this process, and proved incapable of initiating autonomous capitalist development. This paper examines the social relations of production and t…
Labour Studies and Labour History in South Africa
T his article attempts to introduce readers to the impressive and influential historical and contemporary literature on South African labour. A literature with some earlier antecedents effectively applied classic sociological and historical themes to the specific conditions of South African political and economic development. Research on the phase of politicized and militant white worker action ties up with research into the international pre-Wor…
Indian women and the changing character of the working class Indian household in Natal 1860-1990
The conventional literature on Indian women's lives in South Africa as elsewhere tends to ignore or gloss over their economic activities. While the bourgeoisie prize female seclusion, the working‐class household is itself a complex economic unit in which women play a highly significant part. Only looking at the participation of women in the wage economy obscures this part. It is possible to look at the Indian working‐class household and the econo…
Africa and the Second World War
Oil boom and crisis in contemporary Nigeria
Nothing has perhaps confounded believers in the oil dream more than the recent setbacks to Western interests in Iran, the world's second largest oil exporter, whose Shah was not long ago predicting the rise of Iran as the fifth economic power in the world by the end of this century. At present (February 1979), the extent to which social contradictions were intolerably heightened by the oil export boom and the hollowness of the Shah's boast are on…
The incorporation of Northern Nigeria into the world capitalist economy
Recent historical writing on Northern Nigeria has celebrated African entre‐preneurship and even an alleged ‘bourgeois revolution’. This paper offers an alternative account of the way in which Northern Nigeria was incorporated into the world capitalist economy. A merchant bourgeoisie has been important to this process, and proved incapable of initiating autonomous capitalist development. This paper examines the social relations of production and t…
Capitalism and Colonialism in Mozambique
African Labor History
The making of the railways, the growth of African trade unionism, the reaction of employers, and strikes against the multinationals are the kind of topics in African history addressed by this collection of essays
Books reviewed
George Frederickson, White Supremacy: A Comparative Study in American and South African History (New York: Oxford University Press, 1981), xxv + 356 pp. £12.50 Maurice Nyagumbo, With the People: an autobiography from the Zimbabwe struggle (London, Allison & Busby, 1980, pp. 248, £9.95. £3.95 p/b). J. A. C. Mutambirwa, The Rise of Settler Power in Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe), 1898–1923 (New Jersey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1980, pp. …
Capital and Labour in the Nigerian Tin Mines
African Socialism or Socialist Africa
The South African War; The Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902
The Long Transition; Building Socialism in Tanzania
Tanzania
Preface Introduction to the Second Edition: The Political Economy of Tanzania Revisited PART I: INTRODUCTION 1. Nyerere's Tanzania 2. Tanzania and the International Economy PART II: DEVELOPMENT AND UNDERDEVELOPMENT BEFORE 1900 3. The Interior 4. Zanzibar and the Coast 5. The German Conquest PART III: THE COLONIAL SYSTEM 6. The German Colony 7. Agricultural Production under the British 8. Agricultural Marketing and Co-Operatives 9. Non-Industriali…
"Introduction to the Sociology of "Developing Societies
Essays examine the history, economies, political problems, revolutionary movements, class systems, social development, and cultures of the underdeveloped countries from a radical perspective
Uneven Development of Studies on Capitalism in Africa
The Era of Legitimate Commerce, 1800–1870
In the final quarter of the eighteenth century the movement for the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade gathered force in Britain, the premier European slaving nation, and culminated in a ban from 1807. The British then pressured other nations to sign anti-slave trade treaties. In 1833 slavery in the British plantation colonies was entirely abolished to be followed in time by the French, Scandinavian and Dutch colonies, the South American repub…
Industrialisation and South African Society, 1900–1940
While the rest of sub-Saharan Africa witnessed the expansion of merchant capital in relation to a commodity-producing peasantry, South Africa went through the early stages of an industrial revolution. Fundamental economic changes clustered around the expansion of mining whose needs had spurred the imperial thrust into the South African interior. Colonial conquest intensified dependence on the world market, but brought wide-ranging economic growth…
Tropical Africa since Independence
The attainment of independence inaugurated an uncertain and increasingly crisis-ridden period of transition in Africa. Colonialism largely destroyed the fundamental rhythm of pre-capitalist social and economic life without fully advancing a new, self-sustained process of accumulation. The com-moditisation of agriculture had been pivotal to the processes of capitalism in colonial Africa. After 1960 continued growth along these lines faltered while…
Material and Cultural Development in Africa before the Nineteenth Century
Colonialists and nationalists, radicals included, have generally accepted the historical centrality of race and an identity of race, language and culture which defines the history of Africa as a history of black people. Of course, at a practical level, most Africans living south of the Sahara are and have been black so the connection seems obvious and demonstrable. Yet race, to the limited extent that it has a scientific classifi-catory value at …
Culture, Class and Social Change in Colonial Africa, 1900–1940
From the social perspective the development of capitalism tends towards the increasing dominance of two antagonistic classes: the capital-holding and investing bourgeoisie and the landless and resourceless working class or proletariat. However, the operative word here is ‘tends’. Even in the most advanced capitalist society at present, the picture is far from being so simple. Technological needs create new strata who are part-managerial, part-wor…
The Conquest of Africa
Within the last quarter of the nineteenth century the slow process of European political penetration of the African continent gave way to a scramble for colonies that resulted in a partition of all the lands south of the Sahara apart from the Republic of Liberia and Ethiopia. A materialist assessment of imperial conquest will necessarily consider how this process related to the contradictions within capitalist economy and society in Europe as wel…
The European Intrusion in the Era of Merchant Capital
Between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries European traders, missionaries and soldiers arrived in sub-Saharan Africa establishing economic and, to a much lesser extent, political relationships that led ultimately to the colonial expansion of an industrialised, capitalist society. Before the impact of the Industrial Revolution in the late eighteenth century the dominant form of capital in Europe was merchant capital, capital originating from i…
Southern Africa in Crisis
World War II was a time of social and economic pressures in South Africa just as it was further north. It spurred an intensified industrial growth that gave to secondary industry an unprecedented importance in national life. The proportion of Africans increased greatly among factory workers and the flood of new migrants to the cities, responding to job opportunities, swamped the existing locations allocated for African. As Chapter 8 suggested thi…
The Material Basis of Colonial Society, 1900–1940
The imperial conquest of Africa was undertaken to tap African resources in order to help resolve the economic problems of Europe. Yet the circumstances of the conquest brought the colonial rulers to grips with a basic contradiction: only a long, intensive process could create conditions within Africa that could bring about substantial opportunities for investment, sales and profits. Beneath the surface of colonial political and administrative pol…
The Making of Contemporary Africa
Africanist History and the History of Africa
Africans have been conceptualising their lives and social relationships historically since the advent of agriculture and stockherding gave importance to questions of origin, genealogy and property long centuries ago. As state mechanisms and class contradictions evolved in many parts of the continent, historical interpretation became increasingly formalised in the hands of specialists. Informal traditions frequently survived in a masked form refle…
The Decolonisation of Africa, 1940–1960
Two related watersheds divide the twentieth-century history of Africa: the great depression and World War II. Neither had African causes; the second was fought only tangentially in tropical Africa. Both, however, brought about fundamental shifts in world political economy that deeply touched material life and ultimately initiated far-reaching social, political and economic change
John X. Merriman
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