A LONG WAY HOME
A LONG WAY HOME
Migrant Worker Worlds 1800–2014
Edited by Peter Delius, Laura Phillips and Fiona Rankin-Smith
Published in South Africa by:
Wits University Press
1 Jan Smuts Avenue
Johannesburg, 2001
Published edition © Wits University Press 2014
Compilation © Edition editors 2014
Chapter © Individual contributors 2014
Text editors Peter Delius and Laura Phillips 2014
Image editor Fiona Rankin-Smith 2014
First published 2014
ISBN: 978-1-86814-767-0 (print)
ISBN: 978-1-86814-768-7 (digital)
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Contents
Peter Delius and Laura Phillips
Fiona Rankin-Smith
Slavery, Indenture and Migrant Labour: Maritime Immigration from Mozambique to the Cape, c.1780–1880
Patrick Harries
Walking 2 000 Kilometres to Work and Back: The Wandering Bassuto by Carl Richter
Peter Delius
A Century of Migrancy from Mpondoland
William Beinart
Benedict Carton
The Art of Those Left Behind: Women, Beadwork and Bodies
Anitra Nettleton
The Illusion of Safety: Migrant Labour and Occupational Disease on South Africa’s Gold Mines
Jock McCulloch
‘The Chinese Experiment’: Images from the Expansion of South Africa’s ‘Labour Empire’
Fiona Rankin-Smith, Peter Delius and Laura Phillips
‘Stray Boys’: The Kruger National Park and Migrant Labour
Jacob Dlamini
Surviving Drought: Migrancy and the Homestead Economy
Michelle Hay
Migrants from Zebediela and Shifting Identities on the Rand, 1930s–1970s
Sekibakiba Peter Lekgoathi
Verwoerd’s Oxen: Performing Labour Migrancy in Southern Africa
David B Coplan
Julia