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We are the poors : community struggles in post-apartheid South Africa / Ashwin Desai.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Desai, Ashwin
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- South Africa--Economic policy.
- South Africa.
- Economic policy.
- Poor--South Africa.
- Poor.
- Black people--South Africa--Economic conditions.
- Black people.
- Economic conditions.
- Physical Description:
- 153 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Monthly Review Press, [2002]
- Contents:
- Fatima Meer comes to 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
- A revolt grows in Isipingo
- Mpumalanga's new war (co-authored with Heinrich Bohmke)
- Fighting neoliberalism in Soweto and Tafelsig (co-authored with Peter van Heusden)
- Labor and community : the Volkswagen and Engen strikes
- Chatsworth reignites
- Global and local : the World Conference Against Racism and the Durban social forum
- Building a new movement?
- Appendix : Durban Social Forum declaration.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 1583670505
- OCLC:
- 49775311
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