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Johnson, Ian Lyndon. "Multilingualism and linguistic landscapes across space and time in the public railway system in South Africa: A multisemiotic analysis." University of the Western Cape, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/6647.

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Philosophiae Doctor - PhD<br>During apartheid, the infrastructure in South Africa was built by the government and was designed to keep Blacks away from White areas. This infrastructure comprised inter alia the public railway system which was intended to benefit mainly the White minority population, as it momentarily allowed Blacks to provide the cheap labour needed in White areas and businesses. While Whites predominantly resided within the suburbs adjacent to the railways, Blacks were relegated to the outskirts of the cities to areas which became known as townships and homelands. Racial

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Roden, John. "The Anglican Church Railway Mission in southern Africa 1885-1980." Thesis, University of York, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.284122.

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Thako, Luba Jean-Pierre. "Railway Tunnels Management System in South Africa – Concrete Structural Elements." Master's thesis, Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/31283.

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A reliable transportation network is key to economic development and social well-being of communities. Since 19th century, rail transport has provided the most efficient link between South African’s wealthy mineral heartland and the seaports. In developing this rail network, a considerable number of railway tunnels were built due to the topography of the coastal regions. These tunnels are ageing, their operational and environmental conditions are constantly changing. Thus, their management practice should be optimised to adequately respond to the needs of the organisations managing them and fo

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Whang, Patrick. "The collapse of a regional institution : the story of the East African Railways within the East African Community, 1967-1977." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/20619.

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This dissertation examines the deterioration and collapse of the East African Railways Corporation (EARC) during the time of the East African Community (EAC), 1967-1977. The EARC has a long history that stretched back to the beginnings of colonial settlement in the East African region. It survived two world wars and a global economic depression, but just a few years after the independence of East African nations in the early 1960s, the EARC rapidly disintegrated. This then leads to the main project question: What were the causes that contributed to the collapse of the EARC? In order to address

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Wright, L. S. "'Iron on iron': Modernism engaging apartheid in some South African Railway Poems." Routledge, 2011. http://eprints.ru.ac.za/2208/1/Iron_on_Iron_for_ESiA.pdf.

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Abstract Modernism tends to be criticised, internationally, as politically conservative. The objection is often valid, although the charge says little about the quality of artistic achievement involved. This article argues that the alliance between Modernism and political conservatism is by no means a necessary one, and that there are instances where modernist vision has been used to convey substantive political insight, effective social critique and solid resistance. To illustrate the contrast,the article juxtaposes the abstract Modernism associated with Ben Nicholson and World War 2, with a

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Malongwe, Pamela. "Business and information strategic alignment of project and procurement management processes in the railway organisation in South Africa." Thesis, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11838/2741.

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Thesis (MTech (Business Information Systems))--Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2018.<br>Railway organisations in South Africa are government parastatals. These organisations have embarked on mega modernisation programmes. Project and procurement process alignment is crucial to the successful implementation of such programmes, as the disconnect between the two processes may result in project cost overruns and escalations. Projects in the parastatal organisations are not completed on or executed according to the planned schedules. The two main research questions are stated as follows:

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Williams, Faizel. "Understanding Railway Trespassing in a South African City: The Case Of Cape Town." Master's thesis, Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/33094.

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Trespassing behaviour is a problem for railway operations and manifests itself through train-pedestrian collisions, incidents of theft and vandalism to rail infrastructure, as well as encroachment on railway property. The study has consisted of a quantitative and a qualitative part. The quantitative part analyses demographic, temporal and spatial data on train-pedestrian fatalities and injuries, as well as data on occurrences of theft and malicious damage to rail infrastructure in the Cape Town Functional Region between 2015 and 2018. The qualitative part presents the perspective from a divers

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Majavu, Mluleki Justice. "Application of a knowledge management system for tacit knowledge in the railway sector in South Africa." Thesis, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11838/2434.

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Thesis (MTech (Business Information Systems))--Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2016.<br>This research reports on a study conducted in the railway industry in South Africa, the purpose being to help the railway industry by showing how a knowledge management system can be used in the task of extracting tacit knowledge. In the light of the fact that railways in many countries throughout the world function as an effective mass transportation system for passengers, this study aims to design and propose a model that will help the railway industry in South Africa in the task of implementing

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Becker, Celia. "The role of the Pretoria-Pietersburg railway line in the Northern Transvaal during the South African War (1899-1902)." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/78155.

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This dissertation intends to reconstruct accurately the events in the vicinity of the Pretoria-Pietersburg railway during the South African War (Anglo-Boer War) of 1899-1902 that influenced both the Boer and British war efforts and comment on the role played by the railway line in such events. The research question at the centre of this dissertation is the role and impact of the Pretoria-Pietersburg railway line on the trajectory of the War.<br>Dissertation (MSocSci (History))--University of Pretoria, 2020.<br>2022/12/30<br>Historical and Heritage Studies<br>MSocSci (History)<br>Restricted

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Demmerez, de Charmoy Christian Pierre. "Quantifying the economic benefits of gauge changes on the South African core railway network." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/79224.

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In its white paper, the Department of Transport proposes a future South African core railway network which requires the conversion and construction of over 8,500 km of standard gauge railway track by 2050. The scale of the project would undeniably have a large cost attached to it which needs to be well understood before any of the construction takes place. Numerous studies regarding railway gauge have been conducted in South Africa, however, no single paper has addressed the issue of which specific railway corridors could economically benefit from a standard gauge intervention. The purpose of

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Jacobs, Anneli. "Hamba-kahle : an interior intervention to long-distance rail travel in South Africa." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/45275.

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Public rail transport interiors must be adaptable and cater to a wide target market to address the diverse needs of the South African public. Local rail transport competes directly with air travel for market share. Currently, local rail transport fails on both accounts. The failure to invest in and update rail infrastructure has resulted in a desperate need to play catch up with decades of international railway evolution – a need especially visible in the interiors of local long-haul trains. The design and aesthetic identity of transport interiors are generic, dated and fail to addr

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Paulse, Sheryl Dawn. "Analysis and comparison of the South African and Eurocode live load models for railway bridges." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/29698.

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This dissertation is an analytical study that compares the South African Transport Services (SATS) and Eurocode (EC) live load models for railway bridges. The study is specifically concerned with the critical load effects of shear and bending moment. The load models are simulated as moving loads over the full length of simply supported and continuous railway systems with speeds not exceeding 180km/h. The study is limited to short to medium spans ranging from 5m – 40m analysed in increments of 5m. The position of the maximum load effects for simply supported systems was determined using the fra

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Sithole, Nicole. "Izitimela zakoBulawayo : railways and African women’s search for a better life in the ‘city of kings’, circa 1920-1950." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/75469.

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The railway histories of colonial Zimbabwe are a fascinating area of research that has received relatively widespread scholarly attention. Studies of the connection between railway development and the African labour force have been engaged with quite substantially, however, there is a historiographical gap concerning African female experiences with railway infrastructure in the colonial setting. As such, this research challenges the androcentrism of the colonial archive of Zimbabwe by using Bulawayo, the city of kings, as a case study to probe into African female experiences with not only the

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Siro, Jim A. "The viability of an African land-bridge rail system as part of the global supply chain." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/6430.

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GIANOTTI, MATTEO. "Infrastructural scripts. Histories and futures of urbanisation along the Ethio-Djibouti Railway." Doctoral thesis, Politecnico di Torino, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/11583/2942134.

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Wasserfall, Jacob. "Early mine and railway housing in South Africa : a two-part study of ideology and design in working-class housing." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1990. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/251487.

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This study is concerned to explore the vulnerability of working-class housing in South Africa to ideological manipulation, be it of economic and/or political derivation. More descriptively, by delineating the ideological role of early forms of workers' housing in the development of capitalist South Africa, this two-part enquiry aims to reveal the instrumental potential of working-class housing in the spheres of labour control and social management, and to bring to the fore the manner in which ideology can operate through design. Two early innovations in the realm of working-class housing, the

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Tshaai, Dineo Christina. "Optimisation of Rail-road Level Crossing Closing Time in a Heterogenous Railway Traffic: Towards Safety Improvement - South African Case Study." Master's thesis, Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/33056.

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The gravitation towards mobility-as-a service in railway transportation system can be achieved at low cost and effort using shared railway network. However, the problem with shared networks is the presence of the level crossings where railway and road traffic intersects. Thus, long waiting time is expected at the level crossings due to the increase in traffic volume and heterogeneity. Furthermore, safety and capacity can be severely compromised by long level crossing closing time. The emphasis of this study is to optimise the rail-road level crossing closing time in order to achieve improved s

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Mmekwa, Keamogetswe Antoinette. "Assessing the economic value of using structural health monitoring systems on South African bridges by studying the Ermelo-Richards Bay Freight Railway line." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/27480.

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There is a need for appropriate tools and techniques to undertake the vast task of sound repair, maintenance and rehabilitation of concrete infrastructure which is deemed to be deteriorating at unacceptable rates. Low economic growth predictions lead to limited budgets and a deferring of maintenance. The use of technology could be used to extend the useful life of concrete structures. Structural Health Monitoring Systems (SHMS) can be used to monitor structural integrity and the information obtained from these systems can be used in detecting overloading (on bridges for instance) and to alert

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Maluleke, Mkhacani Godfrey. "Evaluation of the place and role of the re-introduced South African Police Service Railway Police Unit in the City of Tshwane Metropolitan municipality / Mkhacani Godfrey Maluleke." Thesis, North-West University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/8307.

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The study: "Evaluation of the re-introduced South African Police Service Railway Police Unit in the City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality" reflects on the significant developmental initiatives that have taken place in the rail environment as a result of the re-introduction of the South African Police Service Railway Police Unit (SAPSRPU). The research focused on the place and role of the SAPSRPU in the context of crime combating and prevention in the railway network of the City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality (CTMM). South Africa entered a new era of transformation and democracy in th

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Fanstone, Ben Paul. "The pursuit of the 'good forest' in Kenya, c.1890-1963 : the history of the contested development of state forestry within a colonial settler state." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/25290.

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This is a study of the creation and evolution of state forestry within colonial Kenya in social, economic, and political terms. Spanning Kenya’s entire colonial period, it offers a chronological account of how forestry came to Kenya and grew to the extent of controlling almost two million hectares of land in the country, approximately 20 per cent of the most fertile and most populated upland (above 1,500 metres) region of central Kenya . The position of forestry within a colonial state apparatus that paradoxically sought to both ‘protect’ Africans from modernisation while exploiting them to es

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Grave, Justin. "Modelling a new electrical conversion chain for railways applications." 2012. http://encore.tut.ac.za/iii/cpro/DigitalItemViewPage.external?sp=1000356.

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M. Tech. Electrical Engineering.<br>Aims to develop these railways applications for a better use of the electrical power to reduce pollution and consumption. The specification of this project is to improve the conversion of the electrical energy. This also involves improving the connection between the train and the electrical networks using the pantograph. In this research, I will propose a new architecture for the converters and a structure to provide to the grid the electricity generated through braking. Another point regards the command of the converters, which is directly involved in the s

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Dube, Mishack Siyafunda. "Shared-use of railway infrastructure in South Africa: the case of coal and citrus production in Mpumalanga." Thesis, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/16848.

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Thesis (M.Com. (Development Theory and Policy))--University of the Witwatersrand, Faculty of Commerce, Law and Management, School of Economic and Business Sciences, 2014.<br>Economic activities such as mining extraction and farming have in the past been supported by railway infrastructure, which continues to provide a cheap transportation option for the movement of freight. This research paper looks at the apparent bias that exists in the shared-use of railway infrastructure in South Africa between coal miners and citrus growers in Mpumalanga. The study is specifically concerned with the regul

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Cripps, Elizabeth Ann. "Provisioning Johannesburg, 1886-1906." Diss., 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/5966.

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The rapidity of Johannesburg’s growth after the discovery of payable gold in 1886 created a provisioning challenge. Lacking water transport it was dependent on animal-drawn transport until the railways arrived from coastal ports. The local near-subsistence agricultural economy was supplemented by imported foodstuffs, readily available following the industrialisation of food production, processing and distribution in the Atlantic world and the transformation of transport and communication systems by steam, steel and electricity. Improvements in food preservation techniques: canning, refrigerati

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Wright, Laurence. "Introduction: Stimela: railway poems of South Africa." 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007420.

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A collection of railway poems is an unusual undertaking. More than an exercise in nostalgia, this anthology captures a large slice of modern South African life, viewed from different perspectives. Many of South Africa’s best poets have written railway poems. This is unsurprising, for railways hold special meaning for a variety of people – people in all walks of life – who find them not only fascinating but emotionally sympatico. The place of railways in the South African economy is changing rapidly, and it will be interesting to see in the coming years whether the less personal, more streamlin

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Madzivhandila, Avhashoni Cynthia. "An analysis of the role of South African Police Service railway policing in crime prevention in South Africa." Thesis, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/25501.

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This is a qualitative study that was intended to analyse the role of South African Police Services (SAPS) railway policing in crime prevention in South Africa (SA). Commuters are exposed to various criminal activities in the railway environment. The Metro Rail trains are the most affordable trains and for that reason, the majority of commuters use these trains to travel to and from their workplaces. This study focused on the large stations in the Gauteng province, South Africa, as there is a high influx of people coming from various provinces for job opportunities. Alexander (2019:np) states t

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Hutchings, Jessica. "Systemic factors in the investigation of South African railway occurrences." Thesis, 2017. https://hdl.handle.net/10539/23846.

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A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Johannesburg, 2017<br>The principle focus of this research is to provide a novel approach to accident investigation theory by focusing on the investigation process itself as a complex system. A number of systemic factors inherent in this system impact on the effectiveness (accuracy, quality, validity, reliability and objectivity) of railway investigations. There is a need to explore why railway occu

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Botha, Noanne. "Customer relationship value in the business-to-business railway market of Southern Africa." Thesis, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/26231.

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This study involves establishing imperative customer relationship value antecedents and mediators within the business-to-business (B2B) railway industry of Southern Africa and determining whether these relationship value antecedents and mediators will achieve customer retention as an outcome. The goal is to create a conceptual model for the B2B railway industry of Southern Africa, which will be done through reviewing well-established theories and past literature on the topics of relationship marketing, relationship value, and retention within the B2B industry. After an examination of the exist

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Van, Der Merwe Johannes Hendrik. "Train driver automation strategies to mitigate signals passed at danger on South African railways." Thesis, 2018. https://hdl.handle.net/10539/25972.

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A research project report submitted to the Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, University of the Witwatersrand, in fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Masters in Engineering. Date 2018/04/18<br>Train derailments or collisions have the potential to result in catastrophic loss of life and/or destruction of property. Ever higher demands for train density (i.e. trains per hour for a given section of track) as well as the catastrophic results when accidents do occur have given rise to the development of railway signalling systems as mitigation measures (Rolt, 2009; Thee

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Wright, Laurence. "'Iron on iron': modernism engaging apartheid in some South African railway poems." 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007459.

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Modernism tends to be criticised, internationally, as politically conservative. The objection is often valid, although the charge says little about the quality of artistic achievement involved. This article argues that the alliance between Modernism and political conservatism is by no means a necessary one, and that there are instances where modernist vision has been used to convey substantive political insight, effective social critique and solid resistance. To illustrate the contrast,the article juxtaposes the abstract Modernism associated with Ben Nicholson and World War 2, with a neglected

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Dibakoane, Kgothlelelo Collet. "Challenges affecting the reliability of diesel locomotives within the South African railway industry." Thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10210/8683.

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M.Phil (Engineering Management)<br>The importance of an effective maintenance programme cannot be over-emphasized because such a programme plays such an important role in the effectiveness of lean manufacturing. Maintenance may be considered the health care of any engineering equipment and its equipment. It is required to reduce waste effectively, and to run an efficient, continuous locomotive operation within a business or service operation. The cost of regular maintenance is very small when it is compared to the cost of a major breakdown at which time production is held up. The main purpose

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Sithole, Phila. "Barriers in supplier development encountered by SMEs as suppliers in the South African railway industry." Diss., 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/45038.

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The purpose of the study was to explore barriers to supplier development encountered by SMEs as suppliers in the South African railway industry. The first objective was to identify barriers faced by SMEs to be suppliers of large OEMs in the South African railway industry. The second objective was to establish the challenges that lead to failure in the supplier development process. The third objective was to describe the activities done by SMEs to position themselves in becoming preferred supplier development candidates for OEMs in the South African railway industry. SMEs as suppliers in the ra

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Tebagana, George. "A Case for efficient legal and institutional frameworks for cross-border railway development in the East African community." Diss., 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/43702.

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The East African Community (EAC) suffers from a critical lack of cross-border railway networks that, if remedied, could improve regional connectivity and boost intraregional trade. The region would also become more investor friendly. Cross-border railway connectivity is particularly important owing to the challenging geographical location and small, uncompetitive and inefficient Partner States. The EAC Partner States have embarked on an ambitious programme to jointly revamp the region’s railways to address the transport deficits. Joint implementation of transport infrastructure projects offers

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James, Ervin. "Unity, Justice and Protection: The Colored Trainmen of America's Struggle to End Jim Crow in the American Railroad Industry [and Elsewhere]." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2012-08-11513.

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The Colored Trainmen of America (CTA) actively challenged Jim Crow policies on the job and in the public sphere between the 1930s and 1950s. In response to lingering questions concerning the relationship between early black labor activism and civil rights protest, this study goes beyond both local lure and cursory research. This study examines the Colored Trainmen's major contributions to the advancement of African Americans. It also provides context for some of the organization's shortcomings in both realms. On the job the African American railroad workers belonging to the CTA fought valiant

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