Working Life 1886-1940 – Luli Callinicos

R150.00

Condition: Good ex-library copy. There is one date slip and card pocket stuck in the very back of the book, a red sticker on the inside of front cover. Otherwise the content is clean and tidy. Cover is protected by plastic film so still in good shape.
Format: A4 Softcover
Published: 1987 (Ravan Press)
Pages: 112
ISBN: 9780869752784

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Working Life 1886-1940 – Luli Callinicos
A People’s History of South Africa Volume 2

What are the origins of South Africa’s working people in the towns? What were the forces that led people to leave the land not so very long ago, and take the journey to the unknown life of wage labour in the towns? How did this steadily growing class of working people live? Through what struggles and processes did they pass to become the decisive human force they are today? A People’s History of South Africa tries to answer these questions (see Volume 1)

Working Life (A People’s History of South Africa Vol 2) is about ‘the world that made the workers’ on the Rand — industry after the mining revolution, the working conditions of those in wage labour, living conditions in the townships. The book also tells of the world the workers made’ — lifestyles and occupations, political life and working-class struggles, art forms and entertainments.