Focuses on the causes and consequences of migrant labor, the social history of the Mozambican migrants and their changing relations with their employers and the state of South Africa. The author uses a wide range of sources to give a compelling account of the day-to-day life of the Mozambican migrants working in the sugar plantations, diamond fields and gold mines, as well as of the shifting identities of the workers through their encounters with new ideasand belief systems.
- ISBN10 0852556136
- ISBN13 9780852556139
- Publish Date 1 January 1994
- Publish Status Inactive
- Out of Print 4 August 2016
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint James Currey
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 320
- Language English