John Higginson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3586147 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Higginson |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Higginson |
| SIGNATURE | HIGGINSON J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 48 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 25 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
If your ox does not pull, what are you going to do
The 1922 Rand Rebellion was the only instance of worker protest in the twentieth century in which a modern state used tanks and military airplanes, as well as mounted infantry, to suppress striking workers. These circumstances were unprecedented in their own time and for most of the century. The compressed and intensely violent rebellion of twenty thousand white mineworkers in South Africa's gold mines had several overlapping features. Within a m…
Making Sense of 'Senseless Violence
Key moments of the American Civil War and the 1899-1902 South African War and their tragic immediate aftermaths remain powerful features of national memory in both countries. Over the past century, vengeful politicians and ideologues in both have transformed them into formidable stock-in-trade. Second-, third-, and fourth-hand accounts of the alleged churlish manner of the victorious armies, especially soldiers of African descent, were made into …
The Spinning Jenny and the Sorting Table
The most compelling aspect of E. P. Thompson's work for labor historian of Southern Africa is his contention that class is a fluent group relationship or ‘happening’ – something workers do, in addition to what employers and the state impose upon them. However, by the 1970s, Thompson recognized that his earlier claim also had to resonate with other key assumptions about working class aspirations; especially the need of a shared group consciousness…
Collective Violence and the Agrarian Origins of South African Apartheid, 1900–1948
This book examines the dark odyssey of official and private collective violence against the rural African population and Africans in general during the two generations before apartheid became the primary justification for the existence of the South African state. John Higginson discusses how Africans fought back against the entire spectrum of violence ranged against them, demonstrating just how contingent apartheid was on the struggle to hijack t…
Cultures of Violence
Cultures of Violence: Racial Violence and the Origins of Segregation in South Africa and the American South Ivan Evans Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2009. 310 pp. (hbk) 978-0719079047 As
Privileging the Machines
Economists and historians have identified the period between 1870 and 1914 as one marked by the movement of capital and labor across the globe at unprecedented speed. The accompanying spread of the gold standard and industrial techniques contained volatile and ambiguous implications for workers everywhere. Industrial engineers made new machinery and industrial techniques the measure of human effort. The plight of workers in South Africa's deep-le…
The Instrument of Terror
This paper underscores that so far comparative historians of segregation have largely neglected a detailed examination of extra-legal violence in the two countries. The use of violence by relatively powerful white elites against and on behalf of the state has been a central but inchoate feature of the histories of South Africa and the United States. Once the two societies were founded as white settler states, no century passed without some major …
Hell in Small Places
During the five years that followed the Anglo-Boer or South African War of 1899--1902 the political consciousness of white farmers and former Boer republican soldiers in many areas of the western Transvaal (presently North-West Province) was quickened by a series of violent or near violent incidents. The catalyst for these opstands or ``armed protests'' was the collapse of the prewar institutional basis of white supremacy over large portions of t…
Defining, Excusing, and Justifying Deviance
Upending the Century of Wrong
(1998). Upending the Century of Wrong: Agrarian Elites, Collective Violence, and the Transformation of State Power in the American South and South Africa, 1865-1914. Social Identities: Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 399-415
A Working Class in the Making
For colonial administrators and the Belgian banks, the Belgian Congo was an immensely rich source of raw materials; diamonds, gold, manganese, oils, nuts, tobacco, peanuts, etc. One of the major forms of exploitation of the Congo was the effort to set up mining companies and to force Africans to work in the mines to extract these resources. Focusing on the most powerful of these mining companies the Union Miniere du Haut-Katange, John Higginson p…
A Working Class in the Making
A Working Class in the Making. Belgian Colonial Labor Policy, Private Entreprise, and the African Mineworker, 1907-1951
A Working Class in the Making
A Working Class in the Making
A Working Class in the Making
A Working Class in the Making
Books reviewed
Johannes Fabian, Language and Colonial Power (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987). Pp. viii and 206. £25.00 Dorothy O. Helly, Livingstone's Legacy: Horace Waller and Victorian Mythmaking (Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 1987). Pp. xviii + 404. £37.95. Shula Marks and Stanley Trapido, The Politics of Race, Class and Nationalism. (London and New York: Longman, 1987). Pp. xiii + 462. £9.95 paperback Phyllis Lewsen, Voices of Protest. (…
Bringing the Workers Back in
John Higginson, Bringing the Workers Back in: Worker Protest and Popular Intervention in Katanga, 1931-1941, Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue Canadienne des Études Africaines, Vol. 22, No. 2 (1988), pp. 199-223
Bringing the Workers Back In
(1988). Bringing the Workers Back In: Worker Protest and Popular Intervention in Katanga, 1931–1941. Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines: Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 199-223
Disputing the Machines
John Higginson, Disputing the Machines: Scientific Management and the Transformation of the Work Routine at the Union Miniere du Haut-Katanga, 1918-1930, African Economic History, No. 17 (1988), pp. 1-21
Steam without a Piston Box
The formation of an African working class
Higginson Responds
Higginson Responds John Higginson CopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.66.9.908 Published Online: October 07, 2011
A hazardous society? Individual versus community responsibility in cancer prevention. Third annual Matthew B. Rosenhaus Lecture
A hazardous society? Individual versus community responsibility in cancer prevention. Third annual Matthew B. Rosenhaus Lecture. J HigginsonCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.66.4.359 Published Online: August 29, 2011
A Working Class in the Making
For colonial administrators and the Belgian banks, the Belgian Congo was an immensely rich source of raw materials; diamonds, gold, manganese, oils, nuts, tobacco, peanuts, etc. One of the major forms of exploitation of the Congo was the effort to set up mining companies and to force Africans to work in the mines to extract these resources. Focusing on the most powerful of these mining companies the Union Miniere du Haut-Katange, John Higginson p…
A Working Class in the Making
Privileging the Machines
Economists and historians have identified the period between 1870 and 1914 as one marked by the movement of capital and labor across the globe at unprecedented speed. The accompanying spread of the gold standard and industrial techniques contained volatile and ambiguous implications for workers everywhere. Industrial engineers made new machinery and industrial techniques the measure of human effort. The plight of workers in South Africa's deep-le…
Steam without a Piston Box
The Instrument of Terror
This paper underscores that so far comparative historians of segregation have largely neglected a detailed examination of extra-legal violence in the two countries. The use of violence by relatively powerful white elites against and on behalf of the state has been a central but inchoate feature of the histories of South Africa and the United States. Once the two societies were founded as white settler states, no century passed without some major …
Making Sense of 'Senseless Violence
Key moments of the American Civil War and the 1899-1902 South African War and their tragic immediate aftermaths remain powerful features of national memory in both countries. Over the past century, vengeful politicians and ideologues in both have transformed them into formidable stock-in-trade. Second-, third-, and fourth-hand accounts of the alleged churlish manner of the victorious armies, especially soldiers of African descent, were made into …
A Working Class in the Making
Higginson Responds
Higginson Responds John Higginson CopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.66.9.908 Published Online: October 07, 2011
A hazardous society? Individual versus community responsibility in cancer prevention. Third annual Matthew B. Rosenhaus Lecture
A hazardous society? Individual versus community responsibility in cancer prevention. Third annual Matthew B. Rosenhaus Lecture. J HigginsonCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.66.4.359 Published Online: August 29, 2011
The formation of an African working class
Bringing the Workers Back in
John Higginson, Bringing the Workers Back in: Worker Protest and Popular Intervention in Katanga, 1931-1941, Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue Canadienne des Études Africaines, Vol. 22, No. 2 (1988), pp. 199-223
Bringing the Workers Back In
(1988). Bringing the Workers Back In: Worker Protest and Popular Intervention in Katanga, 1931–1941. Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines: Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 199-223
Disputing the Machines
John Higginson, Disputing the Machines: Scientific Management and the Transformation of the Work Routine at the Union Miniere du Haut-Katanga, 1918-1930, African Economic History, No. 17 (1988), pp. 1-21
Steam without a Piston Box
Books reviewed
Johannes Fabian, Language and Colonial Power (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987). Pp. viii and 206. £25.00 Dorothy O. Helly, Livingstone's Legacy: Horace Waller and Victorian Mythmaking (Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 1987). Pp. xviii + 404. £37.95. Shula Marks and Stanley Trapido, The Politics of Race, Class and Nationalism. (London and New York: Longman, 1987). Pp. xiii + 462. £9.95 paperback Phyllis Lewsen, Voices of Protest. (…
A Working Class in the Making
A Working Class in the Making
A Working Class in the Making
For colonial administrators and the Belgian banks, the Belgian Congo was an immensely rich source of raw materials; diamonds, gold, manganese, oils, nuts, tobacco, peanuts, etc. One of the major forms of exploitation of the Congo was the effort to set up mining companies and to force Africans to work in the mines to extract these resources. Focusing on the most powerful of these mining companies the Union Miniere du Haut-Katange, John Higginson p…
A Working Class in the Making
A Working Class in the Making. Belgian Colonial Labor Policy, Private Entreprise, and the African Mineworker, 1907-1951
A Working Class in the Making
A Working Class in the Making
Upending the Century of Wrong
(1998). Upending the Century of Wrong: Agrarian Elites, Collective Violence, and the Transformation of State Power in the American South and South Africa, 1865-1914. Social Identities: Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 399-415
Defining, Excusing, and Justifying Deviance
Hell in Small Places
During the five years that followed the Anglo-Boer or South African War of 1899--1902 the political consciousness of white farmers and former Boer republican soldiers in many areas of the western Transvaal (presently North-West Province) was quickened by a series of violent or near violent incidents. The catalyst for these opstands or ``armed protests'' was the collapse of the prewar institutional basis of white supremacy over large portions of t…
The Instrument of Terror
This paper underscores that so far comparative historians of segregation have largely neglected a detailed examination of extra-legal violence in the two countries. The use of violence by relatively powerful white elites against and on behalf of the state has been a central but inchoate feature of the histories of South Africa and the United States. Once the two societies were founded as white settler states, no century passed without some major …
Privileging the Machines
Economists and historians have identified the period between 1870 and 1914 as one marked by the movement of capital and labor across the globe at unprecedented speed. The accompanying spread of the gold standard and industrial techniques contained volatile and ambiguous implications for workers everywhere. Industrial engineers made new machinery and industrial techniques the measure of human effort. The plight of workers in South Africa's deep-le…
Cultures of Violence
Cultures of Violence: Racial Violence and the Origins of Segregation in South Africa and the American South Ivan Evans Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2009. 310 pp. (hbk) 978-0719079047 As
Collective Violence and the Agrarian Origins of South African Apartheid, 1900–1948
This book examines the dark odyssey of official and private collective violence against the rural African population and Africans in general during the two generations before apartheid became the primary justification for the existence of the South African state. John Higginson discusses how Africans fought back against the entire spectrum of violence ranged against them, demonstrating just how contingent apartheid was on the struggle to hijack t…
The Spinning Jenny and the Sorting Table
The most compelling aspect of E. P. Thompson's work for labor historian of Southern Africa is his contention that class is a fluent group relationship or ‘happening’ – something workers do, in addition to what employers and the state impose upon them. However, by the 1970s, Thompson recognized that his earlier claim also had to resonate with other key assumptions about working class aspirations; especially the need of a shared group consciousness…
Making Sense of 'Senseless Violence
Key moments of the American Civil War and the 1899-1902 South African War and their tragic immediate aftermaths remain powerful features of national memory in both countries. Over the past century, vengeful politicians and ideologues in both have transformed them into formidable stock-in-trade. Second-, third-, and fourth-hand accounts of the alleged churlish manner of the victorious armies, especially soldiers of African descent, were made into …
If your ox does not pull, what are you going to do
The 1922 Rand Rebellion was the only instance of worker protest in the twentieth century in which a modern state used tanks and military airplanes, as well as mounted infantry, to suppress striking workers. These circumstances were unprecedented in their own time and for most of the century. The compressed and intensely violent rebellion of twenty thousand white mineworkers in South Africa's gold mines had several overlapping features. Within a m…
Political science (23 works) · African history and culture studies (19 works) · Law (17 works) · Sociology (15 works) · History (11 works) · Law (11 works) · Politics (11 works) · South African History and Culture (10 works) · Colonialism (8 works) · Gender Studies (8 works)