Families Divided - The Impact of Migrant Labour in Lesotho

Klappentext This book examines the effects of migrant labour in a southern African labour reserve. Zusammenfassung This book examines the effects of migrant labour in a southern African labour reserve. Politically independent! Lesotho is acutely dependent on the export of labour to South Africa. This system of oscillating migration is analysed in its historical context - the development of industrial capitalism in South Africa - and with particular emphasis on its contemporary implications. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. From granary to labour reserve; 2. Migrant labour: a way of life; 3. Managing the land; 4. Differentiation, poverty and class formation; 5. Changing family structure; 6. Marital strategy: an essay in custom and conflict; 7. Women at home and at work; 8. Changing perspectives on migrant labour; Appendices; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Colin Murray
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.04.2009
• EAN: 9780521107099
• ISBN: 978-0-521-10709-9
• No. of pages: 236
• Series: African Studies
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology