Research Catalog

Title

Crossing boundaries : mine migrancy in a democratic South Africa / edited by Jonathan Crush & Wilmot James ; assisted by Moira Levy, Janet Levy & Gail Jennings.

Publication

Cape Town : IDASA ; Ottawa, Ontario : IDRC, 1995.

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Additional Authors

• Crush, J. S.
• Institute for Democracy in South Africa.
• International Development Research Centre (Canada)
• James, Wilmot Godfrey, 1953-

Description

xvii, 233 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Subject

• Foreign workers > South Africa > Congresses
• Gold miners > South Africa > Congresses
• Migrant labor > South Africa > Congresses

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings

Note

• "Edited collection of papers present at an international conference on 'Transforming Mine Migrancy in the 1990's' held in Cape Town, June 1994."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• The failure of stabilisation experiments on South African gold mines / Alan Jeeves (12 p.). -- Mine migrancy in the contemporary era / Jonathan Crush (19 p.). -- Housing as a locus of power / Catherine Laburn-Peart (7 p.). -- Violent conflict in mine hostels: post-1990 / Anthony Minnaar (13 p.). -- Residents' views in three mine hostels / Catharine Payze (6 p.). -- Gate politics: Competing interests in mine hostels / Kent McNamara (6 p.). -- Town women and country wives: Housing preferences at Vaal Reefs mine / Dunhar Moodie (14 p.). -- Housing: The role of the employer / Sue Moorhead (4 p.).
• Job stress, health and perceptions of migrant mineworkers / Matsheliso Palesa Molapo (3 p.). -- White plague, black labour revisited: TB and the mining industry / Randall Packard (15 p.). -- Malawian migrant labour and the politics of HIV/Aids, 1985 to 1993 / Wiseman Chijere Chirwa (9 p.). -- Migrant mine labour from Mozambique: What prospects? / Judith Head (10 p.). -- Motherless households, landless farms: employment patterns among Lesotho migrants / David Coplan (12 p.). -- Macroeconomic statistical evidence from Lesotho / James Cobbe (12 p.). -- South African gold mining: The 1980s and beyond / Nicoli Nattrass (10 p.). -- Shafted: The social impact of down-scaling in the OFS gold fields / Gay Seidman (9 p.). -- The NUM job creation and development programme / Kate Philip (6 p.). -- Migrant workers' co-operatives in Lesotho / Motlatsi Thabane (7 p.). -- The future of mine migrancy: Trends in southern Africa / Robert Davies (13 p.). -- The role of Teba: Changes and potential / Roger Rowett (3 p.). -- The politics of normalization: mine migrancy in a democratic South Africa / Jonathan Crush (9 p.).

ISBN

• 1874864128 (IDASA)
• 0889367647 (IDRC)

LCCN

^^^95172295^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library