Zimbabwe's migrants and South Africa's border farms - The roots of impermanence (Paperback)

During the Zimbabwean crisis, millions crossed through the apartheidera border fence, searching for ways to make ends meet. Maxim Bolt explores the lives of Zimbabwean migrant labourers, of settled black farm workers and their dependants, and of white farmers and managers, as they intersect on the border between Zimbabwe and South Africa. Focusing on one farm, this book investigates the role of a hub of wage labour in a place of crisis. A close ethnographic study, it addresses the complex, shifting labour and life conditions in northern South Africa's agricultural borderlands. Underlying these challenges are the Zimbabwean political and economic crisis of the 2000s and the intensifi ed pressures on commercial agriculture in South Africa following market liberalization and post-apartheid land reform. But, amidst uncertainty, farmers and farm workers strive for stability. The farms on South Africa's margins are centers of gravity, islands of residential labour in a sea of informal arrangements.

General

Imprint:	Wits University Press
Country of origin:	South Africa
Release date:	April 2016
Authors:	Maxim Bolt
Dimensions:	229 x 153 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	246
ISBN-13:	978-1-86814-963-6
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > General Books > Business & Economics > Economics > Labour economics > General Books > Business & Economics > Industry & industrial studies > Primary industries > Agriculture & related industries
LSN:	1-86814-963-3
Barcode:	9781868149636

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