Following is a list of abstracts presented for the 1973 Durban Strikes - Celebrating 50 Years Conference.
- “White ladies [do not] push heavy skips”: Examining NUDW and CCAWUSA organising of occupational categories in the retail and distributive trade in the late 1960s and 1970s by Bridget Kenny
- “I want to live not survive”: the politics of refusing low-wage work in a time of mass joblessness by Hannah Dawson
- “Human beings with Souls”: Reconsidering The Durban Strikes Pamphlet by Alex Lichtenstein
- “Exodus without a map”: What happened to the Durban moment? by Edward Webster
- “Dockers and solidarity activism: from the Durban Strikes to choke points in today’s global economy” by Peter Cole
- Worker Culture: It’s Emergence, Gains and the Implications of Decline by Frank Meintjies
- Trade unions and Popular Resistance in the 1980s and New Alliances and the Different Unions Traditions by Kaizer Thibedi
- The Student Wages Commissions, the 1973 Durban Strikes, and the Politics of Statistics by Grace Davie
- The Road to Durban: Workers’ struggles, student movements, and the resurgence of resistance politics in Namibia and South Africa by Heike Becker
- The Lessons of the Transition Era, Inequality and the Politics of Universal Health Care: Re-visiting the Proposals of the Macro-Economic Research Group (MERG) and the Reconstruction and Development Programme by Robert Van Niekerk
- The Fruits of the 1973 Durban Strikes: A Powerful Black Trade Union Movement. Are they still on track or are they off the rails? by Johann Maree
- The Durban Mystery Unraveled: An empirical analysis by Eddie Cottle
- The British Government, The Trade Union Congress, and Black South African Trade Unionism, 1973 to 1994 by Dan Feather
- Reclaiming Radical Traditions of Workers' Education by Linda Cooper and Sheri Hamilton
- Performance, Violence and the Collapse of a Cultural Movement by Ari Sitas
- NEDLAC, Union Investment Companies, the Tripartite Alliance and the Shock of the Government's New Economic Policies by Sifiso Gwala
- Gigs, hustles and hope: work for young South Africans beyond the wage by Adam Cooper and Bernard Dubbeld
- From Durban Falkirk to Defy: Changing sources of workers’ power in the metal industry by Andries Bezuidenhout and Edward Webster
- Exploring Student-Worker Alliance: the role of COSAS in trade unions, 1979-1985 by Noor Nieftagodien
- Exhibition: Durban, 1973: Strike against cheap labour by David Hemson
- Excavations: Shirts, Placards, Posters and the Remnants of Spectacular Protest in the LRS’s Collections by Lebogang Mokwena
- Durban 1973, a National Breakthrough, in the Context of a Globally Developing Socialism? But what if the reality was actually an emergent 50-year international capitalist 'counterrevolution' of 1973-2022? by David Cooper
- Allies or collaborators? Dladla, Buthelezi and the KwaZulu regime, 1972-75 by David Hemson
- 1973: Neo-apartheid and the Sleeping the Giant by Mbuso Nkosi
- The trade union movement and the burden of the future by Monique Marks
- An evolution of Worker Education in South Africa since 1973 and its impact on Worker Movement by John Mhandu
- Trade Unions in South Africa by Ari Sitas and Bianca Tame
- 40 Years of Shop Floor Resistance in a Rubber Factory by Sithembiso Bhengu
- The Changing Nature of the African Working Class: Migrant Workers, Identity and Struggles by Sithembiso Bhengu
- The Durban Strikes and the making of the Political Struggles in South Africa by Vuyisile Msila
- Academia and activism: A unique alliance in working class organisation post 1973 by Vannessa Kruger
- Speaking for ourselves: FOSATU Worker News by Victor Gwande and Nicole Ulrich
- A Matter of ‘Principle’: Corporate America and the South African Worker in the Early 1970s by Mattie C. Webb
- Can Shop Stewards Rekindle the post-1973 Union Traditions? Setting A New Agenda for Union Revitalisation! by Mojalefa M Musi
- The Durban Strikes of 1973 and the End of a Cycle of Struggle by Mondli Hlatshwayo
- Writing the 1973 Durban Strikes: From ‘black worker unrest’ to the ‘birth of independent trade unions’ by Debby Bonnin
- Half a century later: Durban Strikes – 1973 by Gerhard Maré