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