This book examines the effects of migrant labour in a southern African labour reserve. Politically independent, Lesotho is acutely dependent on the export of labour to South Africa. Men spend long periods on contract labour in the South African mines, leaving their wives and families at home. This system of oscillating migration is analysed in its historical context - the development of industrial capitalism in South Africa - and with particular emphasis on its contemporary implications. Dr Murray draws on the experience of particular migrants and their families in Northern Lesotho to illustrate the problems which arise where household members move repetitively between home in Lesotho and workplace in South Africa. This monograph on social structure in the rural periphery of southern Africa places the results of detailed anthropological fieldwork in the framework of the post-1970 radical historiography in southern African studies. It offers an account of changing perspectives on migrant labour in the subcontinent.

Families Divided: The Impact of Migrant Labour in Lesotho (African Studies, Series Number 29)

History

Murray, Colin

Africa

Cambridge University Press

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

No Hearts, No Roses (A Tony Gerard Thriller, 1)

Introducing laid back amateur sleuth Tony Gerard in this gripping new historical mystery series - Ten years after the end of World War II, Tony Gerard, amateur P.I., lives a peaceful life. That is until a routine call from the glamorous Beverly Beaumont, asking Gerard to investigate the disappearance of her brother, ends in the discovery of a body and a face from the past. A face from Paris, 1945.

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Severn House

Set in 1950s’ London, the gripping new Tony Gerard thriller - Reluctant jazz-loving sleuth Tony Gerard’s laid-back lifestyle is dealt a major blow when he receives three separate requests to track down three missing people on a single day: a long-lost daughter, a missing piano player and Hoxton Films’ latest leading man – the good-looking but feckless Philip Graham. But there is more to each case than meets the eye, and Tony finds his investigations are attracting the attention of some seriously dangerous individuals. Soon, events take a murderous turn . . .

September Song (A Tony Gerard Mystery, 2)

Medicine murder involved the cutting of body parts from victims, usually while they were still alive, to be used for the preparation of medicines intended to enhance the power of the perpetrators. A 'very startling' increase in cases of medicine murder apparently took place in Basutoland (now Lesotho), in southern Africa, in the late 1940s and the early 1950s. It gave rise to a dramatic crisis of late colonial rule. Was this increase a real one? If so, why did it happen? How far does it explain the crisis? What other factors contributed? This book offers some comprehensive answers to these difficult, complex and controversial questions and a highly readable analysis of how the crisis arose and of how it fell away. The authors draw sensitively and critically on many different and often conflicting sources of evidence.

Medicine Murder in Colonial Lesotho: The Anatomy of a Moral Crisis (International African Library)

Sanders, Peter

Edinburgh University Press

This book examines the effects of migrant labour in a southern African labour reserve. Politically independent, Lesotho is acutely dependent on the export of labour to South Africa. Men spend long periods on contract labour in the South African mines, leaving their wives and families at home. This system of oscillating migration is analysed in its historical context - the development of industrial capitalism in South Africa - and with particular emphasis on its contemporary implications. Dr Murray draws on the experience of particular migrants and their families in Northern Lesotho to illustrate the problems which arise where household members move repetitively between home in Lesotho and workplace in South Africa. This monograph on social structure in the rural periphery of southern Africa places the results of detailed anthropological fieldwork in the framework of the post-1970 radical historiography in southern African studies. It offers an account of changing perspectives on migrant labour in the subcontinent.

Families Divided: The Impact of Migrant Labour in Lesotho (African Studies Series, No 29)

Anthropology

Ohio Univ Pr (Trd)

Constitutional and Administrative Law

Using numerous topical examples and a clear structure, this third edition textbook provides an accessible, discursive and scholarly treatment of the key contemporary issues in UK public law. Drawing upon their extensive teaching and research experience, Roger Masterman and Colin Murray offer an engaging account of the key topics which make up a constitutional and administrative, or public, law syllabus. Controversial issues and broader debates are highlighted throughout the text, allowing the reader to develop a strong understanding of both the application of key topics in the field and the socio-political context in which the constitution has developed. This fully revised edition includes detailed analysis of recent significant cases, the constitutional implications of the Covid-19 pandemic and a dedicated chapter on the consequences of Brexit.

Masterman, Roger

Constitutional Law

Exploring Constitutional and Administrative Law is the only academic text that addresses head-on some of the issues many students have with the subject, by using engaging features that are both accessible and rigorous. Contemporary case studies engage the reader by highlighting the legal relevance of each topic, before the black letter law, surrounding academic debate and wider political and economic context are introduced. This text is eminently suitable for all undergraduate courses on Constitutional and Administrative Law.

Exploring Constitutional & Administrative Law

Administrative Law

Pearson/Education

A Random History of Football

A top club can spend millions on a legendary player, but it's the small, random things that can affect a soccer match--like a bottle dropped on a goalkeeper's toe or your most creative footballer fleeing town after a drunken encounter with another player's wife. This witty, trivia-packed alternative history pays tribute to the game's unpredictability…and fans will love every second.

Sports & Outdoors

Miscellaneous

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Families Divided: The Impact of Migrant Labour in Lesotho (African Studies, Series Number 29)

Families Divided: The Impact of Migrant Labour in Lesotho (African Studies, Series Number 29)

No Hearts, No Roses (A Tony Gerard Thriller, 1)

September Song (A Tony Gerard Mystery, 2)

Medicine Murder in Colonial Lesotho: The Anatomy of a Moral Crisis (International African Library)

Families Divided: The Impact of Migrant Labour in Lesotho (African Studies Series, No 29)

Constitutional and Administrative Law

Constitutional and Administrative Law

Exploring Constitutional & Administrative Law

A Random History of Football