Work, Culture, and Identity: Migrant Laborers in Mozambique and South Africa, C.1860-1910 (Social History of Africa) - Hardcover

Harries

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 043508092X ISBN 13: 9780435080921

Publisher: Heinemann, 1994

Synopsis

Thousands of Mozambican workers tramped to the sugar plantations, diamond fields, and gold mines of South Africa. They arrived with the cultures and traditions they had learned at home, and it was through their encounter with other blacks, as well as with white employers, that a new and dynamic culture emerged.

Work, Culture, and Identity offers a compelling narrative of the day-to-day life of these migrants. Harries portrays workers as not mere units of suffering, but human beings attempting to deal with exploitative situations in culturally creative ways.

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"A wonderfully interesting book that announces clearly that there is a major new voice to be heard in Southern African studies."-Leroy Vail, Harvard University ?A wonderfully interesting book that announces clearly that there is a major new voice to be heard in Southern African studies.?-Leroy Vail, Harvard University

Synopsis

Harries (history, U. of Cape Town) discusses how a dynamic new culture emerged as Mozambican workers carried their native values, signs, and rituals of authority with them to South Africa to work in the sugar plantations, diamond fields, and gold mines, and encountered other blacks, Europeans, and colonists. He focuses on the causes and consequence

Edition details

• Publisher: Heinemann
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 043508092X
• ISBN 13: 9780435080921
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 305