Edward Cottle
Biographic Data
| ID | 6453625 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Edward Cottle |
| GIVEN NAMES | Edward |
| FAMILY NAME | Cottle |
| SIGNATURE | COTTLE E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Johannesburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4544-4161 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Fifty years ago, women led the Durban mass strikes
The historiography of the Durban mass strikes in 1973 has tended to focus on the role of white scholars or on the competing accounts of the events by different political currents that were active at the time. The most astonishing omission in these accounts was that while it is widely acknowledged that the textile and clothing workers gave the strikes an explosive character, the role of women as prominent actors remains invisible. This article wil…
Economic Long Waves and Long Waves of Strikes in South Africa (1886–2022)
Despite the resurgence internationally of strikes in recent years, studies on the temporality of strike waves within a long-wave perspective has been marked by silence in the literature. This paper revisits the debate on the veracity of long-wave theory to explain the temporality of upsurges in strike activity and the disputes on the measurement of strike waves from an international perspective. The paper applies long-wave theory to South Africa,…
Industrial Action in South Africa (2000-2020)
This article analyses strike statistics over the last twenty years (2000–2020) in South Africa to have a concrete understanding of the state of labour (organised and unorganised). The article makes a new contribution by showing how one can use Lenin’s quantitative method as a framework which I develop to assist in reading the qualitative aspects of worker mobilisation, an aspect which is markedly absent from contemporary analyses of labour. By ut…
Fifty years ago, women led the Durban mass strikes
The historiography of the Durban mass strikes in 1973 has tended to focus on the role of white scholars or on the competing accounts of the events by different political currents that were active at the time. The most astonishing omission in these accounts was that while it is widely acknowledged that the textile and clothing workers gave the strikes an explosive character, the role of women as prominent actors remains invisible. This article wil…
Economic Long Waves and Long Waves of Strikes in South Africa (1886–2022)
Despite the resurgence internationally of strikes in recent years, studies on the temporality of strike waves within a long-wave perspective has been marked by silence in the literature. This paper revisits the debate on the veracity of long-wave theory to explain the temporality of upsurges in strike activity and the disputes on the measurement of strike waves from an international perspective. The paper applies long-wave theory to South Africa,…
Industrial Action in South Africa (2000-2020)
This article analyses strike statistics over the last twenty years (2000–2020) in South Africa to have a concrete understanding of the state of labour (organised and unorganised). The article makes a new contribution by showing how one can use Lenin’s quantitative method as a framework which I develop to assist in reading the qualitative aspects of worker mobilisation, an aspect which is markedly absent from contemporary analyses of labour. By ut…
Fifty years ago, women led the Durban mass strikes
The historiography of the Durban mass strikes in 1973 has tended to focus on the role of white scholars or on the competing accounts of the events by different political currents that were active at the time. The most astonishing omission in these accounts was that while it is widely acknowledged that the textile and clothing workers gave the strikes an explosive character, the role of women as prominent actors remains invisible. This article wil…
Economics (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Law (2 works) · South African History and Culture (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Autonomy (1 work) · Development economics (1 work) · Economy (1 work) · Epistemology (1 work) · Gender Diversity and Inequality (1 work)