| Description |
1 online resource (256 pages) : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) |
| Contents |
The Eastern Main Line: umbilical cord of South Africa's mining revolution circa 1902-1955 -- The changing economic logic of the Eastern Main Line: the shift from an agro-industrial to an industrial-agrarian state -- Mozambican labour regimes and the Eastern Main Line: from forced labour to 'market forces' -- Colonial managerial ideologies: categorising black men in transit -- The Up passage: mobile incarceration -- Masculinity and madness: the mental and physical disposition of exiting migrants -- The down passage: returning the living dead -- Running the South African gauntlet: asset-stripping returning Mozambican migrants -- WNLA train disasters: categorisation and causation in a colonial dispensation |
| Summary |
The full physical & social cost of South Africa's 20th century mining revolution, based on the exploitation of cheap, commoditised, black, migrant labour, has yet to be fully understood. The success of the system, which contributed to the evolution of the policies of spatial segregation & apartheid, depended, in large measure, on the physical distance between the labourer's home & places of work being successfully bridged by steam locomotives & a rail network. These night trains left deep scars in the urban & rural cultures of black communities, whether in the form of popular songs or in a belief in nocturnal witches' trains that captured & conveyed zombie workers to the region's most unpopular places of employment. Through careful analysis of the contrasting inward- & outward-bound legs of the migrants' rail journey, the author shows how black bodies were 'recruited', transported & worked in the repressive system |
| Notes |
Previously issued in print: 2020 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Audience |
Specialized |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed on September 23, 2021) |
| Subject |
Foreign workers, Mozambican -- South Africa -- History
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Foreign workers, Mozambican -- Transportation -- South Africa -- History
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Miners -- South Africa -- History
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Railroads -- Africa, Southern
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Foreign workers, Mozambican.
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Miners.
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Railroads.
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South Africa.
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Southern Africa.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780197583326 |
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0197583326 |
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