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Introduction: The return of the white working class
White workers and the racial state
Privileged race, precarious class: White labour from the mineral revolution to the 'Golden Age'
From sweetheart to 'Frankenstein': The NP's changing stance towards white labour amid the crisis of the 1970s
Rights and race at the rock-face of change: White organised labour and the Wiehahn reforms
White workers and civil society mobilisation
From trade union to social movement: The MWU/Solidarity's formation of a post-apartheid social alliance
An 'alternative government': The Solidarity Movement's contemporary strategies
Discursive labour and strategic contradiction: Managing the working-class roots of a declassed organisation
'Guys like us are left to our own mercy': Counternarratives, ambivalence and the pressures of racial gatekeeping among Solidarity's blue-collar members
Conclusion.
White workers and the racial state
Privileged race, precarious class: White labour from the mineral revolution to the 'Golden Age'
From sweetheart to 'Frankenstein': The NP's changing stance towards white labour amid the crisis of the 1970s
Rights and race at the rock-face of change: White organised labour and the Wiehahn reforms
White workers and civil society mobilisation
From trade union to social movement: The MWU/Solidarity's formation of a post-apartheid social alliance
An 'alternative government': The Solidarity Movement's contemporary strategies
Discursive labour and strategic contradiction: Managing the working-class roots of a declassed organisation
'Guys like us are left to our own mercy': Counternarratives, ambivalence and the pressures of racial gatekeeping among Solidarity's blue-collar members
Conclusion.