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The Moon is Dead! Give Us Our Money!: The Cultural Origins of an African Work Ethic, Natal, South Africa, 1843-1900 (Social History of Africa) - Softcover
Major contribution to the literature focussing on the formation of the South African working class, emphasizing African cultural practices adn African resistance as a shaping force. Using a range of archival sources, diaries memoirs, colonial newspapers and Zulu-English phrasebooks, the author is able to track, wherever possible in their own words, how workmen kept track of time, how tasks were structured, revealing everyday concerns and struggles as well as a set of patterned responses that unmistakably constituted an African work ethic. North America: Heinemann
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About the Author:
KELETSO ATKINS received her Ph.D. in African History from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1986. She is currently Assistant Professor in the Department of History, University of Michigan. She has published "
Review:
Origins of the AmaWasha: The Zulu Washerman's Guild in Natal, 1850-1910,"
Journal of African History 27 (1986)
and "
Kafir Time': Preindustrial Temporal Concepts and Labour Discipline in Nineteenth Century Colonial Natal,"
Journal of African History 30 (1989). Her current research is on the early history of urban migrant workers in Natal, South Africa.
This short but assured and thoroughly researched study has a campaigning point to make: the Natal Africans, whom ignorant, racist settlers condemned as lazy, were in fact intelligent workers alert to exploit their scarcity value in a British colony desperate for labour. - Deborah Gaitskell in HISTORY Passionately and often persuasively argued, this book contributes a new, explicitly African-centred perspective to the already exciting historical literature on the creation of a South African working class. CHOICE
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- PublisherJames Currey
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 085255608X
- ISBN 13 9780852556085
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages206
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