Development histories reveal a legacy of contested power. These essays explore the language of development and its meaning within different political contexts, drawing material from Africa, Asia and Latin America by way of comparison.

Power of Development (Criticism)

Crush, Jonathan

Reference

Routledge

Although the results of colonial expansion have been described in other general studies of the region, this is the first book to take a close look at the case of the Swazi in Swaziland.  Jonathan Crush shows that while the Swazi experienced many of the classic problems of underdevelopment, there were also a number of significant differences.  For example, traditional relationships between chiefs and commoners showed much greater resilience than elsewhere.  This considerably affected the pace and nature of Swaziland's incorporation into South Africa's notorious migrant labour system.  As well, because of the country's proximity to a number of alternative labour markets, the Swazi had a greater choice of employment than did many other groups in the region.  Crush shows how the Swazi were able to use the system to their own advantage and how this helped shape the patterns of early Swazi migrancy.  The Struggle for Swazi Labour examines the changing nature of the Swazi migrant labour force, the spatial patterns and temporal rhythms of migration, and the emergence of the Witwatersrand as the dominant, though by no means exclusive, employer of Swazi labour.  It also shows how the local history of white settlement and land alienation influenced the manner in which the Swazi were subordinated to foreign economic and political control.  The book fills an important gap in the history of Swaziland and in the economic history of the south African region as a whole.  It will be helpful to anyone wishing to understand the pre-eminence of traditional personalities and institutions in contemporary Swaziland, and to those seeking an explanation for South African economic domination of the surrounding countries.  Its comparative perspective makes it valuable to a wide range of scholars with interests in the social and economic development of southern Africa, as well as to labour and social historians, rural economists, and economic geographers.

The Struggle for Swazi Labour, 1890-1920

Business & Money

Economics

McGill-Queen's University Press

This book explores the complex interplay of factors fueling the transformation of the gold mining industry in South Africa. Basing their work on archival sources, contemporary evidence and interviews with mining personnel, the authors chart the expansion and break-up of the mine regional labour "empire" from 1920 through the mid-1970s and explore conflicts between the industry and the state over labour "sourcing", the mobilization of South African labour for the mines, the effects of workforce stabilization for black miners and their home communities, and the emergence of a new racial division of labour in the mining industry. The book concludes with an analysis of the National Union of Mineworkers, speculating on whether its gains over the last decade are so firmly entrenched that they are unlikely to be overturned by either the state or private industry.

South Africa's Labor Empire: A History Of Black Migrancy To The Gold Mines (African Modernization and Development Series)

Yudelman, David

Jeeves, Alan

Westview Press

Racist policies throughout southern Africa consciously drove African farmers off their land during the first half of the 20th century and forced them to become laborers on white farms. This set of essays explore various aspects of the lives and experiences of these black farm workers.

White Farms, Black Labor: The State and Agrarian Change in Southern Africa, 1910-50 (Social History of Africa)

James Currey Ltd.

South Africa's Labour Empire: A History of Black Migrancy to the Gold Mines

History

World

New Africa Books

The Southern African Migration Project is a collaborative project and this paper is published jointly by IDASA in Cape Town and Queen's University, Canada. It seeks to establish a background for understanding the complex and dynamic linkages between urbanisation, migration, HIV/Aids and urban food security in Southern and Eastern Africa. It documents the key dimensions of the connections. The linkages between HIV/Aids and urban food security are particularly less well-established, and in documenting them here, the authors simultaneously link them with migration, the first to examine these dynamics at a regional level. Jonathan Crush is the Director of the Southern African Migration Project, the Director of the Southern African Research Centre at Queen's University, Canada, and an Honorary Professor at the University of Cape Town. Miriam Grant is a Professor at the University of Calgary. Bruce Frayne is a Research Fellow with the International Food Policy Research Institute, and Coordin

LINKING MIGRATION, HIV/AIDS AND URBAN FOOD SECURITY IN SOUTHERN AND EASTERN AFRICA (African Migration and Development)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Frayne, Bruce

Grant, Miriam

Diseases & Physical Ailments

Institute for Democracy in South Africa

Food Security in Africa's Secondary Cities: No. 2.: The Oshakati-Ongwediva-Ondangwa Corridor, Namibia (Urban Food Security)

Politics & Social Sciences

Nickanor, Ndeyapo

Kazembe, Lawrence

Sociology

Southern African Migration Programme

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