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OverviewThe stories in Children of a Bitter Harvest document moments in the lives of children who worked in the heart of South Africa’s wine industry between 1996 and 2010, as framed by the uprisings on farms at the start of 2013. The book is made up of over 100 interconnected flashes, or fragments of stories, taken from the lives of farm workers, farmers, child workers, human rights lawyers, and ordinary people affected by the agricultural industry in the Western Cape. The children in the book are no longer children; they are young adults in a new South Africa that offers them certain freedoms to overcome the shackles of race and class domination. However, without the kind of radical economic and social restructuring that would make this possible, all of the children represented in the book remain extremely poor adults. The author documents how, for these children, their child labour of the 1990s inevitably gave way to adult labour and powerfully demonstrates that the breath between childhood and adulthood is as tender as it is tenuous. We are a nation that has managed to end the brutality of apartheid, but we are a nation that has yet to replace brutality itself. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Susan LevinePublisher: HSRC Press Imprint: BestRed Dimensions: Width: 14.80cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 21.00cm Weight: 0.215kg ISBN: 9780992208516ISBN 10: 0992208513 Pages: 128 Publication Date: 01 September 2013 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 ContentsPreface Introduction Setting the scene Chapter 1 – A brief history of child labour in South Africa Chapter 2 – The boys from Aliwal North Chapter 3 – Rawsonville Chapter 4 – Zwelethemba (Place of Hope) References About the author IndexReviewsThe wine we drink is not innocent. Susan Levine's searing account of child labor in the beautiful valleys of the Cape reminds us of how work, exploitation, and survival are wound together in children's lives, both historically and in the present. Her 'flash ethnographies' weave a complex yet easily accessible account of how race and class shape children's world and possibilities. Powerful yet delicate, Children of a Bitter Harvest offers South Africa's only historical monograph on capitalism and children's work. --Fiona Ross, professor of anthropology, University of Cape Town Author InformationSusan Levine is a senior lecturer in the School of Gender and African Studies, Anthropology and Linguistics at the University of Cape Town. She has written extensively on the political economy of children’s work in South Africa’s wine industry. Her current research focuses on children’s subjective experiences of living with infectious illness in sub-Saharan Africa. The recipient of a Distinguished Teacher’s Award in 2011, Dr Levine is renowned for her experimental pedagogy in teaching medical anthropology. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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