The Notorious Syndicalist: J T Bain,A Scittish Rebel in Colonial South Africa – Jonathan Hyslop

Jonathan Hyslop

Chronicles the life of J. T. Bain, who was a pioneer of socialist ideas in South Africa, and for a fleeting moment in 1919 was labeled the “dictator of Johannesburg.”

JONATHAN HYSLOP is Deputy Director of the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WISER) at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. He has published numerous articles on nineteenth and twentieth century South African social history in journals including the Journal of Historical Sociology, History Workshop Journal, the Journal of African History, the International Journal of African Historical Studies and the Journal of Southern African Studies.