In economic history, capitalism is a crucial concept. It draws attention to the role of social institutions in the rapid and sustained productivity increases of the past two hundred years. It was Karl Marx who first ...

The historical significance of advisory boards has been downplayed because of their contradictory role in urban African politics. Until the 1940s, the system of Advisory Boards was dominated by the 'most reactionary elements' ...

This article seeks to appraise the influence of the History Workshop (based at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa) both on the study of history in South Africa and on popular understandings of the past.

Hitherto, and since its inception in the 1880's, the labour movement in South Africa had been dominated by craft unions, with the exception of the Mine. Workers' Union, which increasingly drew its membership from semi-skilled ...