Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Dock workers in South African history
  • Dock workers and the city, 1910s to 1950s
  • One head of cattle named Salt, another named Beans: livelihood strategies in the 1950s
  • Work and life between the city and the countryside
  • My children never went to bed hungry: gender, households, and reproductive labor
  • Cleaning the wharves: pilferage, bribery, and informal trade
  • Buffaloes on Noah's ark: reimagining working-class history
  • Conclusion: Durban's dock workers in global perspective.