Ebook {Epub PDF} Strikes Have Followed Me All My Life by Emma Mashinini

 · Emma Mashinini: Strikes have followed me all my life Novem Novem by JMB. About the author. JMB. Emma Mashinini of the NMC. Name Email Website. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Mission Statement. The South African Labour Bulletin (SALB) mission is to.  · Mashinini’s memoir, Strikes Have Followed Me All My Life, originally published by The Women’s Press UK in and republished by Picador Africa in South Africa in , is a seminal work of South African autobiography. In it, Mashinini describes how she was detained without charge for six months in , under section 6 of the Terrorism Act. Strikes Have Followed Me All My Life: A South African Autobiography Emma Mashinini, Author, Mashinini Emma, Author, Nomalizo Leah Tutu, Foreword .

The feisty and inspirational Emma Mashinini has passed away at age Emma's memoir, Strikes Have Followed Me All My Life, was originally published by The Women's Press UK in and republished by Picador Africa in South Africa in with a new foreword by Jay Naidoo. She is regarded as the doyenne of the trade union movement in South Africa, serving as a shop steward on the National. Abstract. This paper investigates the construction of self in the autobiography of Emma Mashinini, Strikes Have Followed Me All My Life (). I draw on the insights generated by poststructuralism, which has problematised the relationship between language and the writing subject. For poststructuralists, 'language is not the expression of. An image of Emma Mashinini's autobiography, 'Strikes Have Followed Me All My Life'. Veteran trade unionist Emma Mashinini, who dedicated her life to working conditions in the garment industry.

Strikes Have Followed Me All My Life describes in compelling detail the life of Emma Mashinini, one of South Africa’s leading trade union organisers and gender-rights activists. From her childhood in Sophiatown to the dark days she spent in detention under apartheid and her lasting contributions to labour organisation in South Africa, Emma’s selfless and courageous story – published for the first time in South Africa – recalls and preserves a vital chapter in our country’s history. In this direct, gripping account, Mashinini, a black South African, details her politicization during the course of her work as a trade activist and her subsequent Kafkaesque imprisonment. Married at 17, Mashinini eventually left her abusive first husband, taking her young daughters. "I have always resented being dominated," she writes. Strikes Have Followed Me All My Life is an autobiographical book by Emma Mashinini. It was first published in by The Women's Press, Ltd., in London, England, and republished in by Pan Macmillan in Johannesburg with a new foreword by Jay Naidoo. The book is about Emma Mashinini, Secretary of the South African Commercial, Catering and Allied Workers Union.