A Long Way Home: Migrant worker worlds 1800–2014

by William Beinart, Julia Charlton, David Coplan, Peter Delius, Jacob Dlamini, Patrick Harries, Michelle Hay, Deborah James, Sekibakiba Peter Lekgoathi, and Jock McCulloch

Peter Delius (Editor), Laura Phillips (Editor), and Fiona Rankin-Smith (Editor)

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In no other society in the world have urbanisation and industrialisation 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 Mozambique in the eighteenth century and ending with the strikes and tensions on the platinum belt in recent years. It shows not only the...Read more
  • ISBN10 1868147673
  • ISBN13 9781868147670
  • Publish Date 1 July 2014
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 3 August 2021
  • Publish Country ZA
  • Imprint Wits University Press
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 288
  • Language English