Struggle for the City: Migrant Labor, Capital, and the State in Urban Africa

by Frederick Cooper

The essays in this volume explore the interaction between migrant African labour and the cities in which they worked. These urban structures are viewed as attempts by the state and capital to control not only the workers time, but space as well -- and by extension -- the workers life. The compounds that enclosed diamond mine workers, or the pass systems that limit where workers may move are researched. The efforts to resist, or at least gain information...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803920679
• ISBN13: 9780803920675
• Release Date: September 1983
• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
• Length: 318 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.