HIST 382 Chapter Notes - Chapter reading: Petite Bourgeoisie
19 Feb 2019
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Thee months later awg champion assumed control of the struggling durban branch and also became. Over the following two years while the icu experienced a sharp decline in support in natal"s countryside, they continued to attempt to organize. The icu"s leadership was drawn from racially oppressed lower middle class groupings. Regional patterns of exploitation, domination and dispossession provided the basis for development of the local political culture. In the 1920s the state was making attempts to formulate a native policy more appropriate to conditions of capitalist economic growth. Durban was in a unique position for having the administrative and financial capacity to support the reproduction of a cheap urban workforce at little cost to taxpayers. The wages of male workers remained uniformly low. While several hundred women were domestic servants, the other areas of employment previously available to women were closed down. Beer brewing was the single alternative to the absence of urban female employment opportunities.
