Work, Culture and Identity
Migrant Laborers in Mozambique and South Africa, c.1860-1910
Published on 1. January 1994
Book
Paperback/Softback
320 pages
978-0-85255-613-9 (ISBN)
Description
Focuses on the causes and consequences of migrant labor, the social history of the Mozambican migrants and their changing relations with their employers and the state of South Africa. The author uses a wide range of sources to give a compelling account of the day-to-day life of the Mozambican migrants working in the sugar plantations, diamond fields and gold mines, as well as of the shifting identities of the workers through their encounters with new ideasand belief systems.
Reviews / Votes
Harries provides a rich and remarkable analysis of the complex ways immigrants represented and imagined the social order that was being built, through their own language and categories. ... innovative and adds an important new dimension to our knowledge of the dynamics of the economic and social history of Mozambican migrant labor in the sugar plantations, diamond digs, and gold reefs of South Africa between 1860 and 1910. -- Anna-Alaria Gentili * HISTORICAL STUDIES * This is a work to be enthusiastically welcomed not simply as a piece of labour history but as a major contribution to our understanding of the modern evolution of southern Africa. -- Roy Bridges * HISTORY * ... this is a book that should be read by all interested in migrant labor in South Africa. -- Clifton Crais * AFRICAN STUDIES REVIEW * A wonderfully interesting book that announces clearly that there is a major new voice to be heard in Southern African studies. Looking at both ends of the migrant labour nexus has proven itself to be a smart and logical move, and one is left wondering why it has not been done before. - Professor of African History, Harvard University -- Leroy Vail ... a history textbook one can read from cover to cover. * WEEKLY MAIL *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
24 s/w Abbildungen, 2 s/w Zeichnungen
24 b/w. 2 line.
Dimensions
Height: 227 mm
Width: 142 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-85255-613-9 (9780852556139)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Patrick Harries was Professor for African History at the University of Basel and a member of the steering group of the Centre for African Studies Basel (CASB). He died on 2 June 2016.
Content
Introduction - Environment, Culture & Migration: The D elagoa Bay Area - The Politics of Sugar & Labour - Kim berley: The Cradle of a New Working Class - A Certain Pros perity: Migrant Labour & Commodity Production - The Ea rly Witwatersrand - Discretionary Migrant Labour & Sta ndards of Living - Colonialism & Migrant Labour - Mine Culture - Conclusion