A Long Way Home: Migrant Worker Worlds 1800-2014

by Peter Delius

In no other society in the world have urbanisation and industrialization been as comprehensively based on migrant labour as in South Africa. Rather than focusing on the well-documented narrative of displacement and oppression, A Long Way Home captures the humanity, agency and creative modes of self-expression of the millions of workers who helped to build and shape modern South Africa. The book spans a three-hundred-year history beginning with the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1868147673
• ISBN13: 9781868147670
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Wits University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.1" x 9.8"