A Long Way Home: Migrant Worker Worlds 1800-2014
By William Beinart.
Description
A look at the humanity and creativity of the migrant laborers of South Africa. In no other society in the world have urbanisation and industrialization been as comprehensively based on migrant labour as in South Africa. Rather than focusing on the well-documented narrative of displacement and oppression, A Long Way Home captures the humanity, agency and creative modes of self-expression of the millions of workers who helped to build and shape modern South Africa. The book spans a three-hundred-year history beginning with the exportation of slave labour from Moza...
ISBN(s)
1868147673, 9781868147670
