Zimbabwe's migrants and South Africa's border farms : the roots of impermanence / Maxim Bolt, University of Birmingham.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bolt, Maxim, 1970- author.

Contributor:

Cambridge University Press.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Series:

International African library

The international African library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Migrant agricultural laborers--South Africa--Social conditions.

Migrant agricultural laborers.

Foreign workers, Zimbabwean--South Africa.

Foreign workers, Zimbabwean.

Farmers--South Africa.

Farmers.

Borderlands--South Africa.

Borderlands.

Borderlands--Zimbabwe.

Race relations.

Social conditions.

South Africa--Race relations--21st century.

South Africa.

Zimbabwe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

New York : Cambridge University Press, 2015.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Introduction : labour and fragmentation on the Limpopo River

'It's in our blood, it's in our skin' : success, failure, and self-sufficiency in border farming

Behind the mountain : core, periphery, and control in the Limpopo Valley

Producing permanence : employment and domesticity in the Black workforce

Reimagining men : middle-class farm workers and the Zimbabwean crisis

'Management' or 'paternalism'? : race and registers of labour hierarchy

Scaling up : the farms and the border economy

Conclusion : between production and fragmentation.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Cambridge Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9781316275733

1316275736

Publisher Number:

99965452697

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.