Rethinking White Societies in Southern Africa: 1930s-1990s

ISBN-13: 9781032173863 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 252 str.

Duncan Money; Danelle Van Zyl-Hermann

Opis

This book showcases new research by emerging and established scholars on white workers and the white poor in Southern Africa.

Spis treści

1. Workers Called White and Classes Called Poor: The ‘White Working Class’ and ‘Poor Whites’ in Southern Africa 1910-1994 2. Rhodesian State Paternalism and the White Working-Class Family, 1930s-1950s 3. Immigration and Settlement of "Undesirable" Whites in Southern Rhodesia, c. 1940s to 1960s 4. White People Fit for a New South Africa? State Planning, Policy and Social Response in the Parastatal Cities of the Vaal, 1940-1990 5. Whites, but not Quite: Settler Imaginations in Late Colonial Mozambique, c. 1951-1964 6. "Village Portugal" in Africa: Discourses of Differentiation and Hierarchization of Settlers, 1950s-1974 7. Labour and Mobility on Rhodesia’s Railways: The 1954 Fireman’s Strike 8. The Dog that Didn’t Bark: The Mufulira Strike and White Mineworkers at Zambian Independence 9. Social Engineering and Scientific Management: Some Reflections on the Apartheid Public Service and Historical Process 10. White Workers and the Unravelling of Racial Citizenship in Late Apartheid South Africa

O autorze

Duncan Money is a historian of Southern Africa whose research focuses on the mining industry. He is currently a researcher at the African Studies Centre, Leiden University, Netherlands and was previously a Postdoctoral Fellow at the International Studies Group, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa.

Danelle van Zyl-Hermann is a historian of race and class in modern South Africa. She holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge and is currently a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of History, University of Basel, Switzerland.