{"product_id":"9781770102279","title":"Strikes Have Followed Me All My Life","description":"This is the powerful and moving life story of one of south Africa's leading trade union activists, from her childhood in Sophiatown to her first marriage and divorce, the dark days of her six months in detention and her lasting contributions to labour organisation in South Africa. Strikes have followed me all my life was first published in 1989 by the women's press but was never available in South Africa. Emma Mashinini's autobiography is an accessible, engaging account of a self-effacing union organiser, gender-rights activist and a phenomenal woman who has lived a difficult life and endured many challenges detention without trial for six months (most of which were spent in solitary confinement); losing two daughters and a son-in-law; health problems as a result of detention; and constant abuse at the hands of apartheid's enforcers. but emma's story is one of courage. it is engaging, at times sad (there is a heart-breaking moment in the text when she forgets her daughter's name while.","brand":"Booksite","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39357926080627,"sku":"9781770102279","price":304.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2291\/7991\/products\/strikes-have-followed-me-all-my-life-e-mashinini-28231350616179.jpg?v=1637986687","url":"https:\/\/www.readerswarehouse.shop\/de\/products\/9781770102279","provider":"Readers Warehouse","version":"1.0","type":"link"}