TY - BOOK ID - 85166127 TI - A long way home : migrant worker worlds, 1800-2014 AU - Delius, Peter AU - Phillips, Laura AU - Rankin-Smith, Fiona PY - 2014 SN - 1868149943 9781868147687 1868147681 9781868149940 9781868147670 1868147673 PB - Johannesburg : Wits University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Migrant labor KW - Mines and mineral resources KW - Material culture KW - Labor, Migrant KW - Migrant workers KW - Migrants (Migrant labor) KW - Migratory workers KW - Transient labor KW - Employees KW - Casual labor KW - Deposits, Mineral KW - Mineral deposits KW - Mineral resources KW - Mines and mining KW - Mining KW - Natural resources KW - Geology, Economic KW - Minerals KW - Culture KW - Folklore KW - Technology KW - History. KW - Social life and customs. KW - Social aspects KW - History KW - Social life and customs KW - E-books UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85166127 AB - In no other society in the world have urbanisation and industrialization been as comprehensively based on migrant labour as in South Africa. Rather than focusing on the well-documented narrative of displacement and oppression, A Long Way Home captures the humanity, agency and creative modes of self-expression of the millions of workers who helped to build and shape modern South Africa. The book spans a three-hundred-year history beginning with the exportation of slave labour from Mozambique in the eighteenth century and ending with the strikes and tensions on the platinum belt in recent years. It shows not only the age-old mobility of African migrants across the continent but also, with the growing demand for labour in the mining industry, the importation of Chinese indentured migrant workers. Contributions include 18 essays and over 90 artworks and photographs that traverse homesteads, chiefdoms and mining hostels, taking readers into the materiality of migrant life and its customs and traditions, including the rituals practiced by migrants in an effort to preserve connections to "home" and create a sense of "belonging". The essays and visual materials provide multiple perspectives on the lived experience of migrant labourers and celebrate their extraordinary journeys. A Long Way Home was conceived during the planning of an art exhibition entitled 'Ngezinyawo: Migrant Journeys' at Wits Art Museum. The interdisciplinary nature of the contributions and the extraordinary collection of images selected to complement and expand on the text make this a unique collection. ER -