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LICHTENSTEIN, ALEX. "MAKING APARTHEID WORK: AFRICAN TRADE UNIONS AND THE 1953 NATIVE LABOUR (SETTLEMENT OF DISPUTES) ACT IN SOUTH AFRICA." Journal of African History 46, no. 2 (2005): 293–314. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021853704000441.

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Most analyses of apartheid labor policy focus on the regulation of the labor market rather than the industrial workplace. Instead, this article investigates the administration of South Africa's 1953 Native Labour (Settlement of Disputes) Act to examine shop-floor control rather than influx control. The article argues that in response to the threat of African trade unionism, apartheid policymakers in the Department of Labour addressed the problem of low African wages and expanded the use of ‘works committees’. By shifting the debate about capitalism and apartheid away from influx control and mi

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Huang, Mingwei. "The Chinese Century and the City of Gold: Rethinking Race and Capitalism." Public Culture 33, no. 2 (2021): 193–217. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/08992363-8917178.

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Abstract This article tells a story about the unfolding “Chinese Century” in South Africa centered on China Malls, wholesale shopping centers for Chinese goods that have cropped up along Johannesburg's old mining belt since the early 2000s. Based in ethnographic and historical analysis, the essay takes a palimpsestic approach to imagine how Chinese capital enters into a terrain profoundly shaped by race, labor, and migration and is entangled with the afterlives of gold. Chinese migrant traders in South Africa draw on legacies of migrant mine labor and refashion processes that devalue Black lab

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Musoni, Francis. "The Ban on “Tropical Natives” and the Promotion of Illegal Migration in Pre-Apartheid South Africa." African Studies Review 61, no. 3 (2018): 156–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/asr.2018.73.

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Abstract:This article examines the historical as well as contemporary significance of South Africa’s 1913 ban on the recruitment of migrant workers from areas north of latitude 22 degrees south. This ill-conceived policy not only criminalized the employment of so-called “tropical natives” in South Africa but also triggered contestations, fueling illegal migration from the restricted areas. By 1933, when the ban was lifted, illegal migration from Zimbabwe (then Southern Rhodesia) had become a major site of contestations among policymakers, labor agents, business owners, and migrant workers in S

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Breckenridge, Keith. "Promiscuous Method: The Historiographical Effects of the Search for the Rural Origins of the Urban Working Class in South Africa." International Labor and Working-Class History 65 (April 2004): 26–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0147547904000043.

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Class in contemporary South Africa is undergoing an identity crisis. The demographic decline of the industrial working class, and the terrible predicament of the unemployed, especially in the countryside, lends support to the argument that we should, as Geoff Eley and Keith Neald have recently suggested in the pages of this journal, reconsider the class-centered theory that has dominated social history since the early 1970s. This paper examines the recent labor history of the coastal center of Durban, the urban epicenter of the contemporary disease and subsistence crisis in South Africa. Three

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Breckenridge, Keith. "‘Money with Dignity’: Migrants, Minelords and the Cultural Politics of the South African Gold Standard Crisis, 1920–33." Journal of African History 36, no. 2 (1995): 271–304. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021853700034149.

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This paper takes as its point of departure a simple fact that has gone largely unnoticed in the historical and ethnographic literature of migrant mine labour: prior to 1933 mineworkers were paid in gold. It is argued that the ideas and practices associated with the control and transmission of metallic money were at the heart of the experience of migrant labour before the crisis and formed a major part of the self-definition of migrant gold miners during the 1920s. Moreover, both the practices and ideas of African mineworkers were reciprocally linked to the global political struggles taking pla

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GEWALD, JAN-BART. "NEAR DEATH IN THE STREETS OF KARIBIB: FAMINE, MIGRANT LABOUR AND THE COMING OF OVAMBO TO CENTRAL NAMIBIA." Journal of African History 44, no. 2 (2003): 211–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021853702008381.

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Namibian politics and society are today dominated by people who trace their descent from the settlements and homesteads of Ovamboland in southern Angola and northern Namibia. Yet, prior to 1915, and the defeat by South Africa of the German colonial army in German South-West Africa, very few Ovambo had settled in areas to the south of the Etosha Pan. In 1915, a Portuguese expeditionary army defeated Kwanyama forces in southern Angola, and unleashed a flood of refugees into northern Namibia. These refugees entered an area that was already overstretched. Since 1912 the rains had failed and, on ac

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Lalthapersad, Pinky. "Historical analysis of African women workers in South Africa during the period 1900 to 2000." South African Journal of Economic and Management Sciences 6, no. 2 (2003): 262–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/sajems.v6i2.3313.

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The article is a detailed exposition of the history of the incorporation of African women into paid work in the South African labour market. The interlocking effects of racism, classism and sexism exposed African women to income and job insecurity. Historically, access of African women to the labour market was shaped by the gendered nature of the migrant labour system and by legal measures that restricted women’s entry into urban areas and waged work. When African women were allowed into the formal labour market, they were only allowed to undertake the low-skilled, low-paying, menial jobs, wer

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Heinicke, Craig, and Wayne A. Grove. "Labor Markets, Regional Diversity, and Cotton Harvest Mechanization in the Post-World War II United States." Social Science History 29, no. 2 (2005): 269–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0145553200012955.

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As hand-harvest labor disappeared from the American cotton fields after World War II, labor market dynamics differed between two key production regions, the South and the West. In the South, predominantly resident African Americans and whites harvested cotton, whereas in the West the labor market was composed of white residents, domestic Latino migrant workers, and Mexican nationals temporarily immigrating under the sponsorship of the U.S. government (braceros). We use newly reconstructed data for the two regions and estimate for the first time the regional causes of the demise of the hand-har

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Yoon, Soo Ryon. "Artists or Slave Laborers? Performing Uncapturability in Burkinabe Performers’ Labor Rights Struggle in South Korea." positions: asia critique 28, no. 2 (2020): 311–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/10679847-8112468.

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This article traces eight performers from Burkina Faso, who in 2014 protested unfair labor practices at the Africa Museum of Original Art in South Korea, where they had been hired to perform. In the process, they demonstrated political and artistic endeavors in live concerts and dance workshops to reclaim both their monetary compensation and their artists’ status. Nevertheless, public and media discourse that followed this nationwide news—no matter how sympathetic—tended to treat the artists’ experiences as merely a failed Korean dream. Using performance studies methodologies and ethnographic

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Austin, Gareth. "The Emergence of Capitalist Relations in South Asante Cocoa-Farming, C. 1916–33." Journal of African History 28, no. 2 (1987): 259–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021853700029777.

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The notion of capitalist relations in Ghanaian cocoa-farming is familiar, yet their development has been relatively little studied. In Amansie district, Asante, capitalist relations of production developed as a result rather than as a cause of the cocoa ‘take-off’, c. 1900–16. This paper examines their emergence, which occurred largely during the subsequent period of much slower growth and generally lower prices. The introduction and spread of regular wage-labour, the widening and deepening burden of rent on ‘stranger’ cocoa farms, the proliferation of ‘advances’, and the introduction of farm

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Ngwane, Zolani. "'Real Men Reawaken Their Fathers' Homesteads, the Educated Leave Them in Ruins': the Politics of Domestic Reproduction in Post-Apartheid Rural South Africa1." Journal of Religion in Africa 31, no. 4 (2001): 402–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/157006601x00257.

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AbstractAn historical ethnography of generational conflicts in a rural community in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa, this paper engages debates on the consequences of global neo-liberalism in local contexts. Through cash from migrant labor, rural household heads exercised power over domestic economics. Ideologically this power translated into the symbolic articulation of two institutions of social reproduction-the school and initiation rite such that the educated and potentially alienated subjects yielded by the former were resocialized through the latter into local subjects of the c

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Cox, Kevin R., and David Hemson. "Mamdani and the politics of migrant labor in South Africa: Durban dockworkers and the difference that geography makes." Political Geography 27, no. 2 (2008): 194–212. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2007.08.002.

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Atkins, Keletso E. "‘Kafir Time’: Preindustrial Temporal Concepts and Labour Discipline in Nineteenth Century Colonial Natal." Journal of African History 29, no. 2 (1988): 229–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021853700023653.

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This article attempts to understand in substantive terms the nature of black proletarianization in Natal, South Africa. This is undertaken by moving beyond arid explanations of outside agencies to focus on some of the underlying cultural premises that ordered the day-to-day activities of northern Nguni communities. This article examines their temporal perceptions, exploring within the colonial context the shift from peasant to industrial time, and showing the central role mission churches played in the transition process.Two important disclosures emerge as a result of this study. First, it con

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Masuku, Sikanyiso, and Sharmla Rama. "Challenges to Refugees’ Socioeconomic Inclusion: A Lens Through the Experiences of Congolese Refugees in South Africa." Oriental Anthropologist: A Bi-annual International Journal of the Science of Man 20, no. 1 (2020): 82–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0972558x20913713.

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In antithesis to the 2030 Agenda on Sustainable Development (socioeconomic inclusion for all) and a relatively progressive refugee policy framework (Refugee Act 130 of 1998), refugees in South Africa continue to face targeted exclusion and reduced living potentials. Impediments to refugee groups ability to ‘thrive and not just survive’ (as called for in the 2018 Global Compact on Refugees), are examined in this paper through a synopsis of the conditions surrounding their access to legal documents (a conduit to socioeconomic rights), their equitable participation/inclusion within the formal lab

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Nduna, Mzikazi, and Grace Khunou. "Editorial: Father Connections." Open Family Studies Journal 6, no. 1 (2014): 17. http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1874922401406010017.

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South Africa celebrated twenty years of democracy in 2014 following more than 100 years of colonization and institutionalized discrimination through Apartheid. A ‘broken’ family structure is one of the pathetic legacies left by political instability in post-colonial and post war countries globally. This phenomenon of broken families is evident in South Africa following the period of discrimination against Black people and the systematic migrant labor system that was sponsored by and for the Apartheid government. The migrant labor system separated fathers from their families and men left their

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McInnis, Jarvis C. "A Corporate Plantation Reading Public: Labor, Literacy, and Diaspora in the Global Black South." American Literature 91, no. 3 (2019): 523–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00029831-7722116.

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Abstract This essay reconstructs the history of the Cotton Farmer, a rare African American newspaper edited and published by black tenant farmers employed by the Delta and Pine Land Company, once the world’s largest corporate cotton plantation located in the Mississippi delta. The Cotton Farmer ran from 1919 to circa 1927 and was mainly confined to the company’s properties. However, in 1926, three copies of the paper circulated to Bocas del Toro, Panama, to a Garveyite and West Indian migrant laborer employed on the infamous United Fruit Company’s vast banana and fruit plantations. Tracing the

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Kliuchnyk, Ruslan M., and Elvina M. Lymonova. "DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT." European Vector of Economic Development 2, no. 37 (2024): 59–71. https://doi.org/10.32342/3041-2153-2024-2-37-5.

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The history of humankind is closely tied to the problems of population reproduction, changes in its size, and patterns of human settlement. Population in all countries has been growing for millennia. However, in the 20th and 21st centuries, the situation began to change. The article examines certain aspects of the influence of demographic factors on economic processes. An attempt was made to outline the problems of the demographic crisis and demographic explosion in the 21st century. While there is a demographic crisis in the West, the countries of the Global South are mainly experiencing rapi

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Pohlandt-Mccormick, Helena, and Gary Minkley. "Ukusebenza/Ukuphangela: Raiding the Work of the Future." Kronos 48, no. 1 (2022): 1–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/2309-9585/2022/v48a4.

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This paper is not about work or labour itself, and how it changes historically in South Africa (from pastoral, to agricultural and industrial; native labour, wage labour, migrant labour etc.), but about how the meaning of 'work' and 'labour' itself changes. What we want to suggest, is that an 'original' meaning of the tasks/duties associated with 'work' was 'woman': ukusebenza. What men did, does not constitute 'work' but something else entirely: raiding, moving, occasional, going etc.: ukuphangela. It is in the latter term, ukuphangela, that the term 'raid' emerges, and the argument draws on

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JEEVES, ALAN. "Migrant Labour and South African Expansion, 1920–1950." South African Historical Journal 18, no. 1 (1986): 73–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02582478608671606.

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Kenefick, William. "Confronting White Labourism: Socialism, Syndicalism, and the Role of the Scottish Radical Left in South Africa before 1914." International Review of Social History 55, no. 1 (2010): 29–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0020859009990617.

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SummaryDominated by the ideas of the “communist school”, the early history of the socialist and revolutionary syndicalist movement in South Africa has (until relatively recently) been largely overlooked by labour historians. From this approach emerged the view that the dominant voice of white workers in South Africa was British, and to a lesser extent Australian, and that their blend of class and racial consciousness resulted in the widespread support for the common ideology of white labourism. Indeed, support for this system of industrial and racial segregation was prevalent across the Britis

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BARNES, TERESA A. "FOLLOWING THE MIGRANT MINEWORKERS HOME Basotho and the Mines: A Social History of Labour Migrancy in Lesotho and South Africa, c. 1890–1940. By EDDY TSHIDISO MALOKA. Dakar: Codesria, 2004. Pp. xi+257. £28.95/$47.95, paperback (ISBN 2-85978-128-8)." Journal of African History 46, no. 3 (2005): 527–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021853705341338.

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Hogendorn, Jan S. "Africa - West African Diamonds, 1919–1983: An Economic History. By Peter Greenhalgh. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1985. Pp. xiii, 306. $32.50. - Migrant Labour in South Africa's Mining Economy: The Struggle for the Gold Mines' Labour Supply, 1890–1920. By Alan H. Jeeves. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1985. Pp. xiv, 323. $30.00. - Industrialization and Trade Union Organisation in South Africa, 1924–55: The Rise and Fall of the South African Trades and Labour Council. By Jon Lewis. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1984. Pp. x, 246. £25.00." Journal of Economic History 47, no. 3 (1987): 817–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022050700049391.

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Jochelson, Karen, Monyaola Mothibeli, and Jean-Patrick Leger. "Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Migrant Labor in South Africa." International Journal of Health Services 21, no. 1 (1991): 157–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.2190/11ue-l88j-46hn-hr0k.

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Clark, Samuel J., Mark A. Collinson, Kathleen Kahn, Kyle Drullinger, and Stephen M. Tollman. "Returning home to die: Circular labour migration and mortality in South Africa 1." Scandinavian Journal of Public Health 35, no. 69_suppl (2007): 35–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14034950701355619.

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Aim: To examine the hypothesis that circular labour migrants who become seriously ill while living away from home return to their rural homes to convalesce and possibly to die. Methods: Drawing on longitudinal data collected by the Agincourt health and demographic surveillance system in rural northeastern South Africa between 1995 and 2004, discrete time event history analysis is used to estimate the likelihood of dying for residents, short-term returning migrants, and long-term returning migrants controlling for sex, age, and historical period. Results: The annual odds of dying for short-term

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Crush, Jonathan, and Wilmot James. "Depopulating the compounds: Migrant labor and mine housing in South Africa." World Development 19, no. 4 (1991): 301–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0305-750x(91)90178-k.

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Thomas, William G., Richard G. Healey, and Ian Cottingham. "Reconstructing African American Mobility after Emancipation, 1865–67." Social Science History 41, no. 4 (2017): 673–704. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ssh.2017.23.

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Historians and social scientists have relied on contemporaneous textual accounts to document African American mobility in the immediate aftermath of emancipation after the Civil War, but they have interpreted them in widely varying ways. Some emphasize large-scale migration across the South, while others suggest that most movements were local and limited. This research tracks the early or “first wave” of African American migrants between 1865 and 1867 within and out of the South in an attempt to map the motion taking place after the war and to document the scale, direction, and intensity of Af

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Rockel, Stephen J. "New Labor History in Sub-Saharan Africa: Colonial Enslavement and Forced Labor." International Labor and Working-Class History 86 (2014): 159–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0147547914000155.

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African labor history is undergoing a resurgence judging by the appearance of these three important books. During the 1990s and into the early twenty-first century, historians working in East, West, and southern Africa published a remarkable number of first-rate histories of migrant laborers, rural workers, and the emerging urban working class, notably in the innovative Heinemann Social History of Africa series founded by Allen Isaacman and Jean Hay. Other historians published fine works elsewhere. Labor history of all kinds flourished. However, with new academic trends and the demise of the S

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Chirwa, Wiseman Chijere. "“No TEBA …Forget TEBA”: The Plight of Malawian Ex-migrant Workers to South Africa, 1988–1994." International Migration Review 31, no. 3 (1997): 628–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/019791839703100305.

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This article is about the process of socioeconomic transformation in rural Malawi. It examines the survival strategies and enterprising spirit of Malawian migrant workers and their households. It argues that the strategies of these people often went beyond survival in the provision of basic necessities. Those who had the economic drive and entrepreneurial skills were able to use the proceeds of labor migration to improve their own and their households’ socioeconomic life. In March 1988, the South African Chamber of Mines stopped a century-old tradition of recruiting migrant workers from Malawi

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McCracken, John. "Fishing and the Colonial Economy: the Case of Malawi." Journal of African History 28, no. 3 (1987): 413–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021853700030115.

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Despite the evident importance of fishing in Malawi, its role in the territorial colonial economy has been largely ignored. This paper focuses on the evolution of fishing and fish-trading at the south end of Lake Nyasa (Lake Malawi), emphasising the interaction between ecological change and changes in market opportunity. During the late nineteenth century, fishing played an important role in the economy of the Mang'anja people alongside agricultural production. Communual tasks such as the setting of nets or building of canoes were conducted by male members of an mbumba or matrilineage group wh

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Singh, Gayatri. "Paradoxical Payoffs: Migrant Women, Informal Sector Work, and Hiv/Aids in South Africa." NEW SOLUTIONS: A Journal of Environmental and Occupational Health Policy 17, no. 2 (2007): 71–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/104829110701700208.

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In post-apartheid South Africa, there has been a significant rise in women's out-migration from rural areas and across its territorial borders for economic purposes resulting in gender reconfiguration of migration streams. Alongside, there has been a simultaneous increase in the participation of women in the labor force. However, this has mostly grown in the informal sector,1 which is often associated with low earnings and insecure working conditions. One consequence has been the increasing reliance of migrant women on survivalist activities such as informal sexual exchanges that increase thei

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Singh, Anand. "Skills Transfer in the Context of Migration: A Case for a Redefinition through the South African Landscape." Oriental Anthropologist: A Bi-annual International Journal of the Science of Man 15, no. 2 (2015): 227–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0972558x1501500201.

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This paper is about the notion of skills transfer in South Africa and the influences that emanate from outside the country. It takes the position that while the concept is recent, skills transfers actually predate its introduction into academic discourse. This is because the skills that slaves and indentured labourers carried with them across continents were not ascribed with the recognition it deserved. The discussion here emphasizes that slavery and indentured labour were characteristically imbued with skills that were requisite to build the infrastructures for which colonial empires became

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Echtler, Magnus. "Moral Economy in the Nazareth Baptist Church, South Africa." Journal for the Study of Religion 35, no. 2 (2023): 1–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/2413-3027/2022/v35n2a1.

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Isaiah Shembe founded the Nazareth Baptist Church (NBC) in 1910, and this new institution distinguished itself from mission Christianity not least through the markedly different moral economy. With the church headquarters at the outskirts of Durban (South Africa), the church catered to black Africans, dispossessed of their land and forced into the capitalist labor system. To them, Shembe preached a Protestant work ethic, while at the same time condemning involvement in city life and striving to acquire land and attain economic autonomy for his congregations. With female adherents running away

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Thebe, Vusilizwe, and Pamela Maombera. "“Negotiating the Border”: Zimbabwean Migrant Mothers and Shifting Immigration Policy and Law in South Africa." African Studies Review 62, no. 4 (2019): 134–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/asr.2018.120.

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Abstract:Based on an extended study of Zimbabwean women migrants in the Gauteng Province of South Africa, this article focuses on these women both as mothers and as labor migrants, seeking to understand their migration intentions in relation to changing policy and law in South Africa. It also focuses on their responses to the changes in policy as they seek to renegotiate the border. The strategies adopted by the women in negotiating the border not only demonstrate their agency, but are also intricately linked to their migration intentions. Their responses are critical to our understanding of c

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Choi), Manie (Jong-Man, Joyce C. H. Liu, and Brett Neilson. "Migrant Struggles in South Korea and Elsewhere." South Atlantic Quarterly 120, no. 3 (2021): 655–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00382876-9155351.

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Bidduth, Syed, and Samar were dishonorably deported from South Korea about fifteen years ago while they were protesting for the rights of undocumented migrant workers. Since returning to their home countries, Bangladesh and Nepal, they have been practicing modes of solidarity that they learned during the years of struggle. Still, We Are Migrant Workers is a documentary film made to record their personal history, will, and current political projects. This is an interview about the historical background of labor migration in Korea, the struggles of the characters in the film, and the alternative

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Redhead, Grace. "‘A British Problem Affecting British People’: Sickle Cell Anaemia, Medical Activism and Race in the National Health Service, 1975–1993." Twentieth Century British History 32, no. 2 (2021): 189–211. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/tcbh/hwab007.

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Abstract Recent historiography has explored a contradiction at the heart of the British welfare state—it was founded on and supported by migrant and non-white labour, whose own healthcare and broader welfare state entitlements were neglected. This article explores how this contradiction was exposed and challenged by some of the health service’s own workforce, who witnessed and contested racism in the National Health Service (NHS). This is discussed through the lens of the treatment of sickle cell anaemia (SCA), a genetic trait and disease more common in people of African, South Asian, Middle E

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Megersa, Hailu, and Tesfaye Tafesse. "Cultural Dynamics of Irregular Ethiopian Migration: Insights From Kembata Emigrants to the Republic of South Africa." Journal on Migration and Human Security 12, no. 2 (2024): 110–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/23315024241253506.

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Executive Summary This paper examines the cultural influences on irregular migration to South Africa from the Kembata-Tembaro Zone of Ethiopia. It reports on a mixed methods study, with a cross-sectional household survey ( n = 316) to examine indicators about society’s perceptions, cultural values, and the impact of remittances on migration. In-depth interviews ( n = 24) with migrant returnees and experts in the Kembata-Tembaro Zone Labor and Social Affairs Office explored their experiences and perceptions of irregular migration. The study established a connection between cultural influences a

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Fay, Derick. "Migrants, Forests and Houses: The Political Ecology of Architectural Change in Hobeni and Cwebe, South Africa." Human Organization 70, no. 3 (2011): 310–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.17730/humo.70.3.f346361227x06866.

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Examining architectural continuity and change over a century in two communities in South Africa's Eastern Cape, this paper reassesses the assertion that migration, wage labor, and capitalism lead to major architectural changes and the adoption of extra-local purchased building materials. Labor migration was widespread here by the early 20th century, but houses were built from local materials until the 21st century. The pace and trajectories of architectural change in Hobeni and Cwebe have been contingently related to the stability or dynamism of labor migration, migrant cultures of consumption

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Zhan, Shaohua, and Ben Scully. "From South Africa to China: land, migrant labor and the semi-proletarian thesis revisited." Journal of Peasant Studies 45, no. 5-6 (2018): 1018–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2018.1474458.

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Haridas, Rinila, Rodney Ehrlich, Yotam Moyo, Annalee Yassi, Jerry Spiegel, and Khumbo Kalua. "Unmet Occupational Health Needs of Malawian Ex-Miners from the South African Gold Mines." Annals of Global Health 91, no. 1 (2025): 26. https://doi.org/10.5334/aogh.4680.

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Background: From early in its history, gold mining in South Africa involved recruiting hundreds of thousands of workers from Malawi and other neighbouring countries to work in an environment conducive to high rates of tuberculosis and silicosis. Official recruitment from Malawi ended in the 1990s, depriving large numbers of these migrant miners of their livelihood, with limited or no access to employment-linked social benefits and services. Objectives: To describe barriers faced by Malawian migrant ex-gold miners in accessing social benefits related to occupational lung disease and related hea

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Rohde, R. F., and M. T. Hoffman. "One Hundred Years of Separation: The Historical Ecology of a South African ‘Coloured Reserve’." Africa 78, no. 2 (2008): 189–222. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/e0001972008000132.

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During the twentieth century, the 20,000 hectares commons surrounding the village of Paulshoek as well as the neighbouring privately-owned farms have been significantly influenced by evolving land-use practices driven largely by socio-economic and political change in the broader Namaqualand and South African region. Land-use practices in the communal lands of Namaqualand were based initially on transhumant pastoralism, then on extensive dryland cropping associated with livestock production under restricted mobility, and more recently on a sedentarized labour reserve where agricultural producti

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Gorokhov, Stanislav. "Migrant crisis in the East Africa region." Vostok. Afro-aziatskie obshchestva: istoriia i sovremennost, no. 1 (2023): 50. http://dx.doi.org/10.31857/s086919080023788-3.

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The article examines the policy of Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan, Uganda and Eritrea in the context of the possibility of a coordinated response to the challenges of migrant crises. Large-scale and stable migration ties have developed between the countries that form the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) in East Africa, and common principles of migration policy are being implemented, which indicates the formation of a unified migration system. The movement of migrants within the framework of the latter occurs along four major international routes: Horn o

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Cobley, Alan. "“Lacking in Respect for Whitemen”: “Tropical Africans” on the Witwatersrand Gold Mines, 1903–1904." International Labor and Working-Class History 86 (2014): 36–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s014754791400009x.

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AbstractIn May 1903, 380 Africans were recruited from British Central Africa (modern Malawi) by the Witwatersrand Native Labour Association on one-year contracts to work in the gold mines. It was an experiment designed to test the potential for recruiting cheap black labor for the mines from the region north of the Zambesi. By the end of the contract period, more than a quarter of the men were either dead or permanently disabled. Their struggles to adapt to the harsh working conditions in the mines fueled a racist discourse among white South Africans about “Tropical Africans,” which focused on

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Parthasarathi, Prasannan, and Donald Quataert. "Migrant Workers in the Middle East: Introduction." International Labor and Working-Class History 79, no. 1 (2011): 4–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0147547910000268.

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Transnational labor migration is one of the most visible features of our globalizing world. The International Organization for Migration estimates that there are 214 million migrant workers crossing national borders in the world today. Migration both in and to the Middle East constitutes an important part of this movement of laborers and has deep roots. In the mid-fifteenth century, workers across a broad spectrum of occupations, including stevedores, boatmen, and bakers, trekked from areas in eastern and central Anatolia to the new imperial Ottoman capital, Istanbul, where they lived and work

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Kenny, Bridget. "Walmart in South Africa: Precarious Labor and Retail Expansion." International Labor and Working-Class History 86 (2014): 173–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0147547914000167.

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In 2011 Walmart's bid to buy a controlling stake in South Africa's Massmart Holdings, Inc. went before the country's Competition Commission and Competition Tribunal, both of which would determine whether to grant the merger outright or to place conditions on it. Massmart Holdings comprises a number of branded subsidiaries in the South African market, including Walmart-style general merchandise dealers, electronics retailers, do-it-yourself building suppliers, and food wholesalers—Game, Dion, Builder's Warehouse, and Makro, respectively—as well as the more recently acquired food retailer, Cambr

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Parpart, Jane L., and Fred Cooper. "Struggle for the City: Migrant Labor, Capital and the State in Urban Africa." International Journal of African Historical Studies 19, no. 3 (1986): 578. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/219018.

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Dube, Gugulethu, and Brian Chanda Chiluba. "Burden of Silicosis in the South African Mining Sector and its Effects on Migrant Labor from Neighboring Countries." Journal of Preventive and Rehabilitative Medicine 3, no. 1 (2021): 20–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.21617/jprm2021.316.

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Background: Among other minerals, South Africa has an abundance of asbestos and crystalline silica. Due to dust particles from these minerals, exposure causes respiratory diseases in particular silicosis. Most researches on silicosis have largely been of a cross sectional nature with no or limited long-term patterns reported.Objective:This review aims to analyse silicosis patterns in the gold, diamond and platinum workers over a period of 30 years, and to investigate possible causative factors for mining sector employees leading to them developing respiratory diseases associated with silica.Me

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Pitcher, M. Anne. "What Has Happened to Organized Labor in Southern Africa?" International Labor and Working-Class History 72, no. 1 (2007): 134–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0147547907000579.

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AbstractWhy have labor movements in Mozambique, Zambia, and South Africa increasingly been marginalized from the economic debates that are taking place in their countries, even though they have supported ruling parties? Policy reforms such as trade liberalization, privatization, and revisions to labor legislation in all three countries partially account for the loss of power by organized labor as many scholars have claimed. Yet, these policy “adjustments” have also interacted with long-run, structural changes in production, distribution, and trade of goods as well as with processes of democrat

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Burawoy, Michael. "The Global Turn." Work and Occupations 36, no. 2 (2009): 87–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0730888409333677.

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For too long U.S. labor sociology has been reluctant to explore the world. By taking a global turn, we have much to learn from labor scholars and labor movements in the Global South—much to learn about our own peculiarities, about the possibilities and obstacles to building links across national boundaries, and about the implications of “globalization” for both labor organizing and labor studies. In particular, the public turn taken by scholars in the Global South toward their own labor movements holds lessons for a collaboration that is always fraught from both sides. These are just some of t

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Watson, R. L., Elizabeth A. Eldredge, Fred Morton, and Carolyn Hamilton. "Slavery in South Africa: Captive Labor on the Dutch Frontier." African Economic History, no. 24 (1996): 165. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3601854.

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Cleveland, David A. "Migration in West Africa: a savanna village prespective." Africa 61, no. 2 (1991): 222–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1160616.

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AbstractLocal migration in response to population pressure is part of the history of northeast Ghana. First by physical coercion, then by economic coercion, colonialism drastically changed the pattern of migration to one of long-distance movement from north-east Ghana and the northern savannas in general to southern Ghana. Migration in turn affected social organisation, agriculture and population dynamics n i savanna communities. While colonial policy was not always consistent, one dominant and ultimately effective strategy seems evident: to break up locally self-sufficient economies and socie

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