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We Are the Poors : Community Struggles in Post-Apartheid South Africa /

"We Are the Poors follows the growth of the most unexpected of these community movements, beginning in one township of Durban, linking up with community and labor struggles in other parts of the country, and coming together in massive anti-government protests at the time of the UN World Confere...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Desai, Ashwin
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Monthly Review Press, 2002.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • A note on currency
  • Chatsworth
  • Harinarian "Moses" Judhoo in the promised land
  • How are these people even able to exist?
  • A social timebomb starts ticking
  • The struggle and its fruits : from the militant eighties to the end of apartheid
  • "We are the poors"
  • Upgrading the houses and the return of relocation
  • Is it legal to be poor? : evictions and resistance
  • Faces in the crowd
  • Working life : from rags to tatters
  • Thulisile Manqele's water
  • Revolt in Isipingo
  • Mpumalanga's liberated zone (co-authored with Heinrich Bohmke)
  • Fighting neoliberalism in Soweto and Tafelsig
  • Labor and community : the Volkswagen and Engen strikes
  • Chatsworth re-ignites
  • global and local : the world conference against racism and the Durban social forum
  • Building a new movement?
  • Durban Social Forum declaration.