Introduction
Perspectives on ANC-labour history
Black labour in South Africa to 1940
Early African political organisations and black labour
The SANNC and African working people
To "heartily ... assist the working movement as best they can" : Congress and black labour in the Transvaal, 1912-1919
"Join our union
you will find good result" : Congress and labour in the Cape, Natal and Orange Free State, 1912-1919
"A strong seed in a stony bed" : the 1920s
"The ruling class is getting lost in the mist and sea of selfishness" : Natal in the 1920s
"I-Kongilesi Lilizwi enzindlwini" (Congress's name is Household) : the Transvaal, Cape and Orange Free State in the 1920s
From "culpable inertia" to rebuilding : the ANC and labour in the 1930s
Moderate centre, militant province? The Cape in the 1930s
"A very, very wide influence, even when ... dead" : the Transvaal, Natal and Orange Free State in the 1930s
Conclusion.