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OverviewIn 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 age-old mobility of African migrants across the continent but also, with the growing demand for labour in the mining industry, the importation of Chinese slaves. The essays and visual materials traverse homesteads, chiefdoms and mining hostels in their portrayal of migrant workers’ and their families’ attempts to maintain contact across large distances and uphold their rural customs, traditions and rituals in new spaces and locations. Together, they provide multiple perspectives on the lived experience of migrant labourers and celebrate their extraordinary journeys. A Long Way Home was conceived during the planning of an art exhibition entitled ‘Ngezinyawo: Migrant Journeys’ at the Wits Art Museum. The interdisciplinary nature of the contributions and the extraordinary collection of images selected to complement and expand on the text make this a unique collection. Full Product DetailsAuthor: William Beinart , Julia Charlton , David Coplan , Peter DeliusPublisher: Wits University Press Imprint: Wits University Press Dimensions: Width: 21.00cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 25.00cm Weight: 915.000kg ISBN: 9781868147670ISBN 10: 1868147673 Pages: 288 Publication Date: 01 July 2014 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviews""The build-up to the Marikana massacre (together with the dismaying incidents of xenophobia) has brought the perils of migrancy squarely into contemporary postapartheid South Africa. This book displays a thoughtful and knowledgeable understanding of the roots of the migrant labor system; it is sorely needed."" --Luli Callinicos, author, A People's History of South Africa: Gold and Workers and Who Built Jozi? The build-up to the Marikana massacre (together with the dismaying incidents of xenophobia) has brought the perils of migrancy squarely into contemporary postapartheid South Africa. This book displays a thoughtful and knowledgeable understanding of the roots of the migrant labor system; it is sorely needed. --Luli Callinicos, author, A People's History of South Africa: Gold and Workers and Who Built Jozi? """The build-up to the Marikana massacre (together with the dismaying incidents of xenophobia) has brought the perils of migrancy squarely into contemporary postapartheid South Africa. This book displays a thoughtful and knowledgeable understanding of the roots of the migrant labor system; it is sorely needed."" --Luli Callinicos, author, A People's History of South Africa: Gold and Workers and Who Built Jozi?" The build-up to the Marikana massacre (together with the dismaying incidents of xenophobia) has brought the perils of migrancy squarely into contemporary postapartheid South Africa. This book displays a thoughtful and knowledgeable understanding of the roots of the migrant labor system; it is sorely needed. --Luli Callinicos, author, A People's History of South Africa: Gold and Workers and Who Built Jozi? Author InformationPeter Delius is Professor of History at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. He has published a number of books, including A Lion Amongst the Cattle and Mpumalanga: An Illustrated History. Laura Phillips is a researcher at the Public Affairs Research Institute (PARI) based at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. Fiona Rankin-Smith is special projects curator at the Wits Art Museum, Johannesburg, South Africa. She is the author of Figuring Faith: Images of Belief in Africa and Halakasha! Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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