Research Catalog

Title

We are the poors : community struggles in post-apartheid South Africa / Ashwin Desai.

Author

Desai, Ashwin

Publication

New York : Monthly Review Press, c2002.

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Details

Description

153 p., [4] p. of plates : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

• "When Nelson Mandela was elected president of South Africa in 1994, freedom-loving people around the world hailed a victory over racial domination. The end of apartheid did not change the basic conditions of the oppressed majority, however. Material inequality has deepened and new forms of solidarity and resistance have emerged in communities that have forged new and dynamic political identities."
• "We Are the Poors follows the growth of the most unexpected of these community movements, beginning in one township of Durban, linking up with community and labor struggles in other parts of the country, and coming together in massive anti-government protests at the time of the UN World Conference Against Racism in 2001. It describes from the inside how the downtrodden regain their dignity and create hope for a better future in the face of a neoliberal onslaught, and shows the human faces of the struggle against the corporate model of globalization in a Third World country."--Jacket.

Subject

• Geschichte 1994-2002
• Poor > South Africa
• Black people > South Africa > Economic conditions
• Post-apartheid era > South Africa
• South Africa > Economic policy

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Fatima Meer comes to Chatsworth -- Harinarian "Moses" Judhoo in the promised land -- How are these people even able to exist? -- A social timebomb starts ticking -- The struggle and its fruits : from the militant eighties to the end of apartheid -- "We are the poors" -- Upgrading the houses and the return of relocation -- Is it legal to be poor? : evictions and resistance -- Faces in the crowd -- Working life : from rags to tatters -- Thulisile Manqele's water -- A revolt grows in Isipingo -- Mpumalanga's new war (co-authored with Heinrich Bohmke) -- Fighting neoliberalism in Soweto and Tafelsig (co-authored with Peter van Heusden) -- Labor and community : the Volkswagen and Engen strikes -- Chatsworth reignites -- Global and local : the World Conference Against Racism and the Durban social forum -- Building a new movement? -- Appendix : Durban Social Forum declaration.

ISBN

1583670505 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2002006897

OCLC

• 49775311
• SCSB-11342438

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library