Introduction - Environment, Culture & Migration: The D elagoa Bay Area - The Politics of Sugar & Labour - Kim berley: The Cradle of a New Working Class - A Certain Pros perity: Migrant Labour & Commodity Production - The Ea rly Witwatersrand - Discretionary Migrant Labour & Sta ndards of Living - Colonialism & Migrant Labour - Mine Culture - Conclusion
Patrick Harries was Professor for African History at the University of Basel and a member of the steering group of the Centre for African Studies Basel (CASB). He died on 2 June 2016.
Harries provides a rich and remarkable analysis of the complex ways
immigrants represented and imagined the social order that was being
built, through their own language and categories. ... innovative
and adds an important new dimension to our knowledge of the
dynamics of the economic and social history of Mozambican migrant
labor in the sugar plantations, diamond digs, and gold reefs of
South Africa between 1860 and 1910.
*HISTORICAL STUDIES*
This is a work to be enthusiastically welcomed not simply as a
piece of labour history but as a major contribution to our
understanding of the modern evolution of southern Africa.
*HISTORY*
... this is a book that should be read by all interested in migrant
labor in South Africa.
*AFRICAN STUDIES REVIEW*
A wonderfully interesting book that announces clearly that there is
a major new voice to be heard in Southern African studies. Looking
at both ends of the migrant labour nexus has proven itself to be a
smart and logical move, and one is left wondering why it has not
been done before. - Professor of African History, Harvard
University
*Leroy Vail*
... a history textbook one can read from cover to cover.
*WEEKLY MAIL*
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