Research Catalog

Title

A long way home : migrant worker worlds, 1800-2014 / edited by Peter Delius, Laura Phillips and Fiona Rankin-Smith.

Publication

Johannesburg : Wits University Press, 2014.

Supplementary Content

• Contributor biographical information
• Publisher description

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Additional Authors

• Delius, Peter (Peter Nicholas St. Martin)
• Phillips, Laura (Social historian)
• Rankin-Smith, Fiona

Description

viii, 280 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits; 25 cm

Subject

• Migrant labor > South Africa > History
• Migrant labor > South Africa > Social life and customs
• Migrant labor > South Africa > Exhibitions
• Mines and mineral resources > Social aspects > South Africa
• Migrant labor > South Africa > Pictorial works
• Material culture > South Africa
• Migrant labor > South Africa > In art
• Material culture
• Migrant labor
• Mines and mineral resources > Social aspects
• South Africa

Genre/Form

• Illustrated works.
• Exhibition catalogs.
• History.
• Pictorial works.

Note

• "A Long Way Home was conceived during the planning of an art exhibition entitled 'Ngezinyawo' - Migrant journeys' at the Wits Art Museum."--Dust cover.
• Includes index.

Contents

Highlighting migrant humanity -- Ngezinyawo -- migrant journeys -- Slavery, indenture and migrant labour : maritime immigration from Mozambique to the Cape, c. 1780-1880 -- Walking 2 000 kilometers to work and back : The Wandering Bassuto by Carl Richter -- A century of migrancy from Mpondoland -- The migrant kings of Zululand -- The art of those left behind : women, beadwork and bodies -- The illusion of safety : migrant labour and occupational disease on South Africa's gold mines -- 'The Chinese Experiment' -- 'Stray Boys' : the Kruger National Park and migrant labour -- Surviving drought : migrancy and the homestead economy -- Migrants from Zebediela and shifting identities on the Rand, 1930s-1970s -- Verwoerd's oxen : performing labour migrancy in Southern Africa -- 'Give my regards to everyone at home including those I no longer remember' : the journey of Tito Zungu's envelopes -- Sophie and the city : womanhood, labour and migrancy -- Bungityala -- Migrants : vanguard of the workers' struggles? -- Debt or savings? Of migrants, mines and money -- Post-apartheid migrancy and the life of a Pondo mineworker.

Call Number

Sc F 19-540

ISBN

• 9781868147670
• 1868147673

LCCN

2014507216

OCLC

894957026

Title

A long way home : migrant worker worlds, 1800-2014 / edited by Peter Delius, Laura Phillips and Fiona Rankin-Smith.

Publisher

Johannesburg : Wits University Press, 2014.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

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Contributor biographical information

Publisher description

Added Author

Delius, Peter (Peter Nicholas St. Martin), editor.

Phillips, Laura (Social historian), editor.

Rankin-Smith, Fiona, editor.

Research Call Number

Sc F 19-540