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A long way home : migrant worker worlds, 1800-2014 / edited by Peter Delius, Laura Phillips and Fiona Rankin-Smith.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Delius, Peter (Peter Nicholas St. Martin), editor.
Phillips, Laura (Social historian), editor.
Rankin-Smith, Fiona, editor.
ebrary, Inc.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Migrant labor--South Africa--History.
Migrant labor.
Migrant labor--South Africa--Social life and customs.
Migrant labor--South Africa--Exhibitions.
Mines and mineral resources--Social aspects--South Africa.
Mines and mineral resources.
Migrant labor--South Africa--Pictorial works.
Material culture--South Africa.
Material culture.
Mines and mineral resources--Social aspects.
Manners and customs.
History.
South Africa.
Genre:
Pictorial works.
Exhibition catalogs.
Illustrated works.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (viii, 280 pages) : illustrations (some color), portraits
Place of Publication:
Johannesburg : Wits University Press, 2014.
System Details:
text file
Contents:
Highlighting migrant humanity
Ngezinyawo
migrant journeys
Slavery, indenture and migrant labour : maritime immigration from Mozambique to the Cape, c. 1780-1880
Walking 2 000 kilometers to work and back : The Wandering Bassuto by Carl Richter
A century of migrancy from Mpondoland
The migrant kings of Zululand
The art of those left behind : women, beadwork and bodies
The illusion of safety : migrant labour and occupational disease on South Africa's gold mines
'The Chinese Experiment'
'Stray Boys' : the Kruger National Park and migrant labour
Surviving drought : migrancy and the homestead economy
Migrants from Zebediela and shifting identities on the Rand, 1930s-1970s
Verwoerd's oxen : performing labour migrancy in Southern Africa
'Give my regards to everyone at home including those I no longer remember' : the journey of Tito Zungu's envelopes
Sophie and the city : womanhood, labour and migrancy
Bungityala
Migrants : vanguard of the workers' struggles?
Debt or savings? Of migrants, mines and money
Post-apartheid migrancy and the life of a Pondo mineworker.
Notes:
"A Long Way Home was conceived during the planning of an art exhibition entitled 'Ngezinyawo' - Migrant journeys' at the Wits Art Museum." -- Dust cover.
Includes index.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. Available via World Wide Web.
Description based on print version record.
ISBN:
9781868147687
1868147681
Publisher Number:
99969136008
Access Restriction:
Restricted for use by site license.

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