On Durban's Docks - Zulu Workers, Rural Households, Global Labor

Offers a new approach to the study of labor on the subcontinent and globally, questioning the relevance of the predominant wage labor paradigm for Africa and the Global South.

List of contents

Introduction: Dock Workers in South African History
Dock Workers and the City, 1910s to 1950s
One Head of Cattle Named Salt, Another Named Beans: Livelihood Strategies in the 1950s
Work and Life Between the City and the Countryside
My Children Never Went to Bed Hungry: Gender, Households, and Reproductive Labor
Cleaning the Wharves: Pilferage, Bribery, and Informal Trade
Buffaloes on Noah's Ark: Reimagining Working-Class History
Conclusion: Durban's Dock Workers in Global Perspective
Epilogue
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Ralph Callebert

Product details

• Authors: Ralph Callebert
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.12.2017
• EAN: 9781580469074
• ISBN: 978-1-58046-907-4
• No. of pages: 252
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 233 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 535 g
• Series: Rochester Studies in African H
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics