In South Africa, with few exceptions, scholarship on the modern labour movement which emerged after the Durban strikes of 1973 tends to focus on trade unions that constituted the labour movement, strikes, collective bargaining, and workplace changes. While all these topics covered by labour scholars are of great importance, there is less emphasis on the role played by labour support organisations (LSOs) which, in some cases, predate the formation of the major trade unions. Based on an analysis of historical writings, some archival and internet sources, this article critically discusses the contribution of LSOs and their use of workers’ education to build and strengthen trade unions, which became one of the critical forces in the struggles against racial capitalism in the 1980s. In particular, it critically examines the work of the Urban Training Project (UTP) and the South African Committee for Higher Education (SACHED) workers’ education programmes as a contribution to building the labour movement. The relationship between trade unions which had elaborated structures of accountability and LSOs which were staffed by a relatively small layer of activists also led to debates about accountability and mandates.

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在反对种族资本主义的斗争中建设工人的教育：劳工支持组织的作用

在南非，除少数例外，1973年德班罢工后出现的现代劳工运动奖学金趋向于集中于构成劳工运动，罢工，集体谈判和工作场所变动的工会。尽管劳工学者涵盖的所有这些主题都非常重要，但对劳工支持组织（LSO）所扮演的角色的重视却较少，后者在某些情况下早于主要工会的成立。在对历史著作，一些档案和互联网资源进行分析的基础上，本文批判性地讨论了LSO的贡献及其对工人教育的使用，以建立和加强工会，LSO成为抵抗种族资本主义的重要力量之一。 1980年代。特别是，它批判性地考察了城市培训项目（UTP）和南非高等教育委员会（SACHED）工人教育计划的工作，以为建设工人运动做出贡献。制定了问责制的工会与由相对较少的激进分子组成的LSO之间的关系也引发了关于问责制和任务授权的辩论。