Southampton to Durban on the Union Castle Line: An Imperial Shipping Company and the limits of globality <i>c.</i> 1900–39

Hyslop, Jonathan

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“…The long tradition of labour studies in South Africa has indeed integrated closely with social histories of labour, work, class and community (Callinicos, 1980;Bozzoli and Nkotsoe, 1991). New work, while disparate, suggests the reexamination of important lacunae, such as the historical and multiple forms of coerced labour in Southern Africa and in global connection (Ulrich, 2013;Hyslop, 2017), inter-African migration and collective organisation, such as in the Industrial and Commercial Union (ICU) (Johnstone et al, forthcoming;Dee, 2020), South African white workingclass histories examining working experiences, organisations and contraditions of incorporation under apartheid (Kenny, 2018;Money and van Zyl-Hermann, 2020), and reexamination of 1970s' and 1980s' trade union traditions (Forrest, 2011;Byrne et al, 2017;Stewart, 2020;Moodie, 2020).…”

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The return of the labour process: race, skill and technology in South African labour studies

Kenny

Webster

2021

Work in the Global Economy

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From its beginnings, the sociology of work in South Africa has been preoccupied with three enduring themes: skill/deskilling, racism in the workplace, and Fordism/racial Fordism. With the advent of democracy in the 1990s there was a shift away from studying the labour process. We argue in this article that there has been a return to taking seriously the ways new forms of work in this postcolonial context pose new questions to the global study of work. A central preoccupation in the study of work has been the racialised reinscription of post-apartheid workplace orders, now in the context of new dynamics of externalisation and casualisation of employment. Another important theme is the shift away from studies of the formal sector workplace and toward the broader implications of the precarianisation and informalisation of labour. This focus coincided with the growth of new social movements by mostly unemployed (black) township residents around state services provision. This includes studies on working-class politics more broadly, with attention focusing on questions of organising and mobilising. More recently this interest in precarious labour has grown into studies of the gig economy, returning to earlier themes of technology and skill, as well as new forms of waged labour and wagelessness. We argue for the ongoing salience of labour process studies for understanding the specific issues of the securing and obscuring of value, and through the articulations of ‘racial capitalism’ offered by the long tradition of labour studies in South Africa.

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The return of the labour process: race, skill and technology in South African labour studies

Kenny

Webster

2021

Work in the Global Economy

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“…They brought together seafarers of different ethnicities and with experiences of seafaring in both the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. As the spatial practices of the NUS testify, maritime organizing was more 'nationed' than the stereotypes of motley crews might suggest, for various forms of multi-ethnic politics influenced their organizing practices in generative ways (Hyslop 2017;Linebaugh and Rediker 2001). Tracing the trajectories, solidarities and articulations that cut across some of the neat spaces of politics imagined through anti-colonial, nationed links can be integral to thinking about forms of spatial politics of decolonization from below.…”

Section: Maritime Labour Transnational Trajectories and Decolonizatimentioning

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Maritime labour, transnational political trajectories and decolonization from below: the opposition to the 1935 British Shipping Assistance Act

Featherstone

2019

Global Networks

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This article uses a discussion of struggles over attempts by the National Union of Seamen to exclude seafarers from the maritime labour market in the inter‐war period to contribute to debates at the intersection of maritime spaces and transnational labour geographies (cf. Balachandran 2012; Høgsbjerg 2013). By focusing on struggles engendered by the British Shipping (Assistance) Act of 1935, I explore some of the transnational dynamics through which racialized forms of trade unionism were contested. I argue that the political trajectories, solidarities and organizing spaces constructed by the alliances formed to oppose the effects of the act shaped articulations of ‘decolonization from below’ (James 2015). In this way, engaging with the political trajectories and activities of activists from organizations like the Colonial Seamen's Association can reveal new ways of understanding the spatial politics of decolonization and new accounts of who or how such processes were articulated and contested. I conclude the article by arguing that engagement with these struggles can help assert the importance of forms of subaltern agency in shaping processes of decolonization.

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“…An important body of scholarship by maritime labour historians has problematized the tendency to assume that internationalism and cosmopolitanism inevitably shape maritime worker organization. Jonathan Hyslop has thus drawn attention to the forms of white labourism that shaped some seafarers' trade unions, notably the National Union of Seamen (NUS), the main seafarers' union in Britain, and to the routinized and regularized nature of much seafaring work, especially that associated with liners (Hyslop 2009(Hyslop , 2017; see also Ahuja 2006;Bunnell 2017). This stresses the importance of thinking about the situated trajectories and spatialities shaped through maritime labour -and seeing these spaces as products of struggle.…”

Section: Maritime Spaces Subaltern Histories and Transnational Relatmentioning

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Special issue introduction: maritime networks and transnational spaces

Featherstone

2019

Global Networks

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This article introduces the key contributions of the special issue on ‘Maritime networks and transnational spaces’. It draws attention to three key thematics that the papers develop. These are a set of engagements between law, space and maritime networks; a set of questions around maritime spaces, subaltern histories and transnational networks and finally a set of concerns around the forms of ‘geopolitical literacy’ articulated by maritime actors (Troutman 2005). Through drawing together these interlocking problematics the articles contribute to a broad agenda highlighting the productive intersection of work on maritime networks and transnational spaces. The introduction sets out some of the ways in which engagements with maritime contexts and scholarship can offer new perspectives on the transnational spatialities of politics, resistance and regulation.

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Southampton to Durban on the Union Castle Line: An Imperial Shipping Company and the limits of globality c. 1900–39

Cited by 3 publications

References 12 publications

The return of the labour process: race, skill and technology in South African labour studies

The return of the labour process: race, skill and technology in South African labour studies

Maritime labour, transnational political trajectories and decolonization from below: the opposition to the 1935 British Shipping Assistance Act

Special issue introduction: maritime networks and transnational spaces

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