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A Long Way Home: Migrant Worker Worlds 18002014
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Paperback. In no other society in the world have urbanisation and industrialisation been as comprehensively based on migrant labour as in South Africa. Editor(s): Delius, Peter; Phillips, Laura; Rankin-Smith, Fiona. Num Pages: 320 pages, 90-100 images. BIC Classification: JFFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 252 x 210 x 19. Weight in Grams: 912.
In no other society in the world have urbanisation and industrialisation been as comprehensively based on migrant labour as in South Africa. Rather than focusing on the well-documented narrative of displacement and oppression, A Long Way Home captures the humanity, agency and creative modes of self-expression of the millions of workers who helped to build and shape modern South Africa.
The book spans a three-hundred-year history beginning with the exportation of slave labour from Mozambique in the eighteenth century and ending with the strikes and tensions on the platinum belt in recent years. It shows not only the age-old ... Read more
In no other society in the world have urbanisation and industrialisation been as comprehensively based on migrant labour as in South Africa. Rather than focusing on the well-documented narrative of displacement and oppression, A Long Way Home captures the humanity, agency and creative modes of self-expression of the millions of workers who helped to build and shape modern South Africa.
The book spans a three-hundred-year history beginning with the exportation of slave labour from Mozambique in the eighteenth century and ending with the strikes and tensions on the platinum belt in recent years. It shows not only the age-old ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Wits University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Johannesburg, South Africa
ISBN
9781868147670
SKU
V9781868147670
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99-50
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Peter Delius is Professor of History at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. He has published a number of books, including A Lion Amongst the Cattle and Mpumalanga: An Illustrated History. Laura Phillips is a researcher at the Public Affairs Research Institute (PARI) based at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. Fiona Rankin-Smith ... Read more
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