Work, Culture and Identity: Migrant Laborers in Mozambique and South Africa, c.1860-1910 - Couverture souple
Synopsis
Focuses on the causes and consequences of migrant labor, the social history of the Mozambican migrants and their changing relations with their employers and the state of South Africa. The author uses a wide range of sources to give a compelling account of the day-to-day life of the Mozambican migrants working in the sugar plantations, diamond fields and gold mines, as well as of the shifting identities of the workers through their encounters with new ideasand belief systems.
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À propos de l'auteur
Patrick Harries was Professor for African History at the University of Basel and a member of the steering group of the Centre for African Studies Basel (CASB). He died on 2 June 2016.
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