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Liquor and labor in Southern Africa

Author: J S Crush; Charles H Ambler
Publisher: Athens : Ohio University Press ; Pietermaritzburg : University of Natal Press, ©1992.
Edition/Format: Book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: J S Crush; Charles H Ambler
ISBN: 082141027X 9780821410271 0869808745 pbk 9780869808740 pbk
OCLC Number: 26306810
Description: xv, 432 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Contents: Alcohol in Southern African labor history / Charles Ambler and Jonathan Crush -- Liquor and labor in the Western Cape, 1870-1900 / Pamela Scully -- Drink and cultural innovation in Durban : the origins of the beerhall in South Africa, 1902-1916 / Paul La Hausse -- The "Durban system" and the limits of colonial power in Salisbury, 1890-1935 / Richard Pary -- Prohibition and illicit liquor on the Witwatersrand, 1902-1932 / Julie Baker -- Alcohol and resistance on the South African gold mines, 1903-1962 / Dunbar Moodie -- The role of alcohol in labor acquisition and control on the Natal coalmines, 1911-1938 / Ruth Edgecombe -- "We women will show them" : beer protests in the Natal countryside, 1929 / Helen Bradford -- Beer brewing in Umtata : women, migrant labor, and social control in a rural town / Sean Redding -- Beer drinking and labor migration in the Transkei : the invention of a ritual tradition / Patrick McAllister. (cont.) Backs to the fence : law, liquor, and the search for social control in an East Rand Town, 1929-1942 / Philip Bonner -- Drinking Apartheid and the removal of beerhalls in Johannesburg, 1939-1962 / Christian Rogerson -- Alcohol and the control of labor on the copperbelt / Charles Ambler -- The construction of compound authority : drinking at Havelock, 1938-1944 / Jonathan Crush -- The Shebeen Queen and the evolution of Botswana's sorghum beer industry / Steven Haggblade.
Responsibility: edited by Jonathan Crush and Charles Ambler.

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