The Making of Apartheid, 1948-1961: Conflict and CompromiseThis book breaks new ground in exposing some of the crucial political processes and struggles which shaped the reciprocal development of Apartheid and capitalism in South Africa. The author's compelling analysis debunks the orthodoxy in the literature, which presents apartheid as the product of a single "grand plan" created by the State in response to the pressures of capital accumulation. Using a case study of influx control during the first phase of apartheid (1948-1961), Posel shows that apartheid arose from complex patterns of conflict and compromise within the State in which white capitalists, the black working class, and popular movements exercised varying and uneven degrees of influence. |
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Introduction | 1 |
The Legacy of the 1940s | 23 |
Apartheid and Influx Control Strategy in the 1950s | 61 |
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African labour African urbanisation African women African workers agricultural amongst Apartheid ASSOCOM authorities Bantu BCC BMR Botha Report Brakpan Broederbond Cape Town capitalist cent cities Committee decade detribalised economic integration Eiselen employers employment Fagan Commission farmers FCI NEAF foreign Africans growth IANA Ibid ideological illegal influx control laws influx control policy influx control strategy influx control system Johannesburg NEAD labour bureaux system labour shortages Laws Amendment Bill London migrant labour migrant labour system migrant workers municipal municipal administrators NAD's influx control nationalist alliance Native Affairs Native Labour Native Laws Amendment Non-European Affairs numbers of Africans organised commerce policy-makers political Pretoria proclaimed area reserves resident residential rights rural areas SAAU SABRA SAIRR semi-skilled South Africa state's Tomlinson Commission total segregation townships Transvaal ULPP Union Union-born University of Witwatersrand unskilled urban African population urban areas Verwoerd wages Western Cape white farms Witwatersrand work-seekers WRAB WRAB JMR