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Ekurhuleni : the making of an urban region / Philip Bonner & Noor Nieftagodien with Sello Mathabatha.

Title
Ekurhuleni : the making of an urban region / Philip Bonner & Noor Nieftagodien with Sello Mathabatha.
Author
Bonner, P. L.
Publication
Johannesburg, South Africa : Wits University Press, 2012

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Additional Authors
  • Nieftagodien, Noor
  • Mathabatha, S. (Sello)
Description
xv, 267 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
Subject
  • Ekurhuleni (South Africa) > History
  • Ekurhuleni (South Africa) > Politics and government
Genre/Form
History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 246-250) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Tracing the contours of Ekurhuleni -- White workers and their struggles, 1907-1924 -- Constructing black Ekurhuleni, 1890-1927 -- Ekurhuleni's insubordinate women, 1918-1945 -- Social worlds and social strains in industrializing Ekurhuleni -- Squatter camps and immigrant culture -- Turning point 1940s -- The first steps in social engineering, reconfiguring space -- Black politics in Ekurhuleni in the mid-1950s -- Making of a modern economy -- Apartheid's heyday in Ekurhuleni -- The student movement of 1976 -- Ekurhuleni and the struggle against apartheid -- A time of insurrection -- Politics of the stalemate -- The politics of transition -- City of fragments -- Informal and contentious city.
ISBN
9781868145430
LCCN
^^2014398563
OCLC
826600384
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library