Ekurhuleni : the making of an urban region / Philip Bonner & Noor Nieftagodien with Sello Mathabatha.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bonner, Phil, author.

Nieftagodien, Noor, author.

Mathabatha, S. (Sello), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ekurhuleni (South Africa)--History.

Ekurhuleni (South Africa).

Ekurhuleni (South Africa)--Politics and government.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 267 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Johannesburg : Wits University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The first academic work to provide an historical account and explanation of the development of this extended region to the east of Johannesburg since its origins at the end of the nineteenth century. From the time of the discovery of gold and coal until the turn of the twenty-first century, the region comprised a number of distinctive towns, all with their own histories. In 2000, these towns were amalgamated into a single metropolitan area, but, unlike its counterparts across the country, it does not cohere around a single identity. Drawing on a significant body of academic work as well as original research by the authors, the book traces and examines some of the salient historical strands that constituted what was formerly known as the East Rand and suggests that, notwithstanding important differences between towns and the racial fragmentation generated by apartheid, the region's history contains significant common features. Arguably, its centrality as a major mining area and then as the country's engineering heartland gave Ekurhuleni an overarching distinctive economic character.

Contents:

Tracing the contours of Ekurhuleni

White workers and their struggles, 1907-1924

Constructing black Ekurhuleni, 1890-1927

Ekurhuleni's insubordinate women, 1918-1945

Social worlds and social strains in industrializing Ekurhuleni

Squatter camps and immigrant culture

Turning point 1940s

The first steps in social engineering, reconfiguring space

Black politics in Ekurhuleni in the mid-1950s

Making of a modern economy

Apartheid's heyday in Ekurhuleni

The student movement of 1976

Ekurhuleni and the struggle against apartheid

A time of insurrection

Politics of the stalemate

The politics of transition

City of fragments

Informal and contentious city.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 246-250) and index.

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 24 Apr 2018).

ISBN:

1-86814-599-9