Strikes Have Followed Me All My Life: A South African Autobiography

Emma Mashinini was Secretary of one of South Africa's biggest trade unions when she was arrested without charge and detained for six months, often in solitary confinement. This powerful and compelling autobiography of Mashinini relates the moving story of her life under apartheid from her childhood in Sophiatown, her first marriage and divorce, motherhood, and her work in a textile factory that eventually lead her to the trade union.