Socialist Historians Bibliography
Peter Alexander
Areas of interest include: Race and Class, Labour in South Africa and United States. Globalization and Industrial Sociology
Books
Forthcoming: with Rick Halpern (Eds), Race and Labo[u]r in South Africa and the United States.
Workers, War and the Origins of Apartheid: Labour and Politics in South Africa, 1939-48.(Oxford: James Currey; Athens: Ohio University Press; Cape Town: David Philip, 2000).
With Rick Halpern (Ed’s), Racializing Class, Classifying Race: Labour and Difference in Britain, the USA and Africa. (Basingstoke: Macmillan; New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000)
Racism, Resistance and Revolution, (London, Chicago and Melbourne: Bookmarks, 1987)
Articles in journals
Commissioned: ‘Labour and Globalisation in Southern Africa,’ International Labor and Working-Class History.
2001: ‘Globalisation and Discontent: Project and Discourse.’ African Sociological Review 5(1).
2001: ‘Oscillating Migrants, "Detribalised Families" and Militancy: Mozambicans on Witbank Collieries, 1918-1927,’ Journal of Southern African Studies 27(3)
2000: ‘Zimbabwean Workers, the MDC and the 2000 Election,’ Review of African Political Economy 85.
1999: ‘Coal, Control and Class Experience in South Africa’s Rand Revolt of 1922,’ Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 19(1).
1996: ‘Collaboration and Control: Engineering Unions and the South African State, 1939-45,’ South African Journal of Sociology 27(2). Available on Ebscohost.
Chapters in books
Forthcoming: With Rick Halpern, ‘Class and Racial Formation Compared: South Africa and the US South,’ in Alexander and Halpern (see above).
Forthcoming: ‘Conflicts and Contrasting Loyalties: Coal Miners in Alabama and the Transvaal 1918-22,’ in Alexander and Halpern (see above).
‘Rising From the Ashes: Alabama Coal Miners 1921-1941,’ in Edwin L. Brown and Colin J. Davis (Ed’s), It Is Union and Liberty: Alabama Coal Miners UMW, (Tuscaloosa and London: University of Alabama Press, 1999)
‘South African and US Labour in the era of World War II: Similar Trends and Underlying Differences,’ in Rick Halpern and Jon Morris (Ed’s), American Exceptionalism: US Working-class Formation in an International Context. (Basingstoke: Macmillan; New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1997)
Other editorial work
1997: With Rick Halpern, Shula Marks and Hilary Sapire (Ed’s), Beyond White Supremacy: Towards a New Agenda for the Comparative Histories of South Africa and the United States Collected Seminar Papers No. 49. London: Institute of Commonwealth Studies.
Many of the publications listed in this bibliography can be obtained from Bookmarks, the TUC and Socialist online book service