Insiders and Outsiders: The Indian Working Class of Durban, 1910-90

Name: Insiders and Outsiders: The Indian Working Class of Durban, 1910-90
Brand: Recyclivre
Author: Bill Freund
ISBN: 9780852556160

Bill Freund

01/01/1995
James Currey

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Couverture de Insiders and Outsiders: The Indian Working Class of Durban, 1910-90 par Bill Freund

Résumé

Examines what the history of working class Indians in Durban says about the nature of South African capitalism in the 20th century. This work, which draws on substantial interviews, is a study of economic history from below. It focuses on the cultural and social history of Indians in Durban, exploring such topics as: why did the Indian peasantry rise and decline like the African peasantry, but with a different chronology?; what was the economic logic of the Indian family and to what extent do new interests in the politics and economics of gender help us to understand that logic?; why did Indian workers become intensely militant and why did this militacy subside?; and, above all, what can this history tell us about the changing nature of South African capitalism? North America: Heinemann