Olive Schreiner (1855-1920) was once the best-known feminist theorist and author of her time. Her writings spanned a few conventionally separate genres (including the unconventional, brief tale, allegory, political essay, polemic and theoretical treatise), which she crafted to supply a hugely designated feminist and analytical 'voice'. A feminist who was once contemporaneously an internationally-renowned social commentator, Schreiner's constructing political research used to be - and nonetheless is - hugely unique. She built a materially-based socialist and feminist research of 'labour' which led her to theorise social and monetary switch, divisions of labour in society and among men and women, capitalism and imperialism, round leading edge rules approximately how -- and by way of whom -- monetary and social price used to be produced. She mixed with this a prepared awareness to inter-personal family members, among ladies as actually or politically sisters, among 'respectable' and sexually outcast ladies, among feminist ladies and the 'New Men', and in the kin. Distinctively, Schreiner's writings on monetary and political lifestyles in South Africa criticised the rules and perform of Rhodes within the Cape Colony and British imperialism in southern Africa extra extensively. She hostile the South African conflict of 1899-1902, promoted federation instead of union because the shape the South African kingdom may still take and insisted on equivalent political rights for all. Schreiner steadfastly adverse the advance of apartheid segregationist guidelines and supplied an intensive research of the connection among 'race' and capital.

Imperialism, Labour and the recent Woman relies on fundamental archive examine, making specific use of Schreiner's unpublished letters and different significant manuscript assets to supply a huge reconceptualisation of the scope and value of her writings and cutting edge and experimental rules approximately style and shape. It bargains an incredible rethinking of Schreiner's political writings on South Africa, and it emphasises the uniqueness of Schreiner's contribution because the significant feminist theorist of her age and that which undefined. The publication will allure rather to readers drawn to the advance of social concept, in influential feminist rules and writing of the fin de sicle interval, within the modern critique of capitalism and imperialism, and in 'the age of imperialism' in Southern Africa, in addition to to Women's stories students around the educational disciplines.