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This book looks at the history of Indian workers from 1860 to the present. It tries to show how the actions of the bosses and the laws of the government have created and reinforced divisions between Indian and African workers. Part 1 looks at the experiences of Indian workers on the farms and mills from the time they arrived from India in 1860 up to the time of the first factories. Part 2 looks at the first factories and the first unions and at the attempts of the bosses to control and divide the workers until the 1960s. Part 3 looks briefly at the 1960s when things were quiet. It looks at the new unions that were set up after the 1973 strikes in Durban, and it ends with looking at what faces workers in the 1980s. (DÜI-Hff)

In 1981 both employers and the state were caught unawares when the largest concerted wave of black-worker strikes in Natal occured since 1973. The strikes were centred on contributory pensions schemes. Based on a study among 530 black workers in five affected companies, this article compares factors advanced by workers involved in the disturbances with those among a control group of 80 unaffected workers in nearly 50 companies in the region