A long way home : migrant worker worlds, 1800-2014 /

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In no other society in the world have urbanisation and industrialization 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-...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Delius, Peter (Peter Nicholas St. Martin) (Editor), Phillips, Laura (Editor), Rankin-Smith, Fiona (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Johannesburg : Wits University Press, 2014.
Subjects:
Migrant labor > South Africa > History.
Migrant labor > South Africa > Social life and customs.
Migrant labor > South Africa > Exhibitions.
Mines and mineral resources > Social aspects > South Africa.
Migrant labor > South Africa > Pictorial works.
Material culture > South Africa.
Travailleurs migrants > Afrique du Sud > Histoire.
Travailleurs migrants > Afrique du Sud > Mœurs et coutumes.
Travailleurs migrants > Afrique du Sud > Expositions.
Travailleurs migrants > Afrique du Sud > Ouvrages illustrés.
Culture matérielle > Afrique du Sud.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
HISTORY > Africa > General.
Material culture
Migrant labor
Mines and mineral resources > Social aspects
Arbeitsmigration.
Arbeitsmigranten.
Afrika.
South Africa
Südafrika > Kontinent
Exhibition catalogs
History
Pictorial works
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents ; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Highlighting Migrant Humanity ; Chapter 1: Ngezinyawo
  • Migrant Journeys; Chapter 2: Slavery, Indenture and Migrant Labour: Maritime Immigration from Mozambique to the Cape, c.1780-1880; Chapter 3: Walking 2 000 Kilometres to Work and Back: The Wandering Bassuto by Carl Richter ; Chapter 4: A Century of Migrancy from Mpondoland ; Chapter 5: The Migrant Kings of Zululand; Chapter 6: The Art of Those Left Behind: Women, Beadwork and Bodies.
  • Chapter 7: The Illusion of Safety: Migrant Labour and Occupational Disease on South Africa's Gold MinesChapter 8: 'The Chinese Experiment': Images from the Expansion of South Africa's 'Labour Empire'; Chapter 9: 'Stray Boys': The Kruger National Park and Migrant Labour; Chapter 10: Surviving Drought: Migrancy and the Homestead Economy; Chapter 11: Migrants from Zebediela and Shifting Identities on the Rand, 1930s-1970s; Chapter 12: Verwoerd's Oxen: Performing Labour Migrancy in Southern Africa.
  • Chapter 13: 'Give My Regards to Everyone at Home Including Those I No Longer Remember': The Journey of Tito Zungu's EnvelopesChapter 14: Sophie and the City: Womanhood, Labour and Migrancy; Chapter 15: Bungityala; Chapter 16: Migrants: Vanguard of the Workers' Struggles?; Chapter 17: Debt or Savings? of Migrants, Mines and Money; Chapter 18: Post-Apartheid Migrancy and the Life of a Pondo Mineworker; Notes on Contributors; List of Figures and Tables; Index.

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