Summary

The essays in this collection explore various aspects of the lives & experiences of Black farm workers who were driven off their own land & forced to labor on White farms instead. Contents: 1. Farm Labour & the South African State, 1924-48, D. Duncan 2. Land, Legislation & Labor Tenants: Resistance in Lydenburg, 1938, S. Schirmer 3. Wage Workers & Labour Tenants in Barberton, 1920-1950, C. Mather 4. Factories in the Fields: Capitalist Farming in the Bethal District, c. 1910-1950, M. Murray 5. Eastern Cape Wool Farmers: Production & Control in Cathcart, 1920-1940, R. Bouch 6. Migrant Workers & Epidemic Malaria on the South African Sugar Estates, 1906-1948, A. Jeeves 7. Plantation Agriculture, Mozambican Workers & Employers' Rivalry in Zululand, 1918-1948, D. Lincoln 8. Transkeian Migrant Workers & Youth Labour on the Natal Sugar Estates, 1918-1948, W. Beinart 9. "Synonymous with Gentlemen?" White Farmers, Schools & Labour in Natal, c. 1880-1920, R. Morrell 10. Paternalism & Violence on the Maize Farms of the S.W. Transvaal, 1900-1950, C. van Onselen 11. "The Colour of Civilization": White Farming in Colonial Swaziland, 1910-1940, J. Crush 12. Tobacco Farmers & Wage Laborers in Colonial Zimbabwe, 1904-1945, S. Rupert 13. "Ropes of Sand": Soldier-Settlers & Nagana in Zululand, S. Brooks 14. "The Garden of Eden": Sharecropping on the Shire, W. Chirwa Index