TY  - BOOK
AU  - Van Onselen,Charles
TI  - The night trains: moving Mozambican miners to and from the Witwatersrand Mines, 1902-1955 
T2  - Oxford scholarship online
SN  - 9780197583326 (ebook) :
AV  - HD8801 
U1  - 331.62679068 23
PY  - 2021///
CY  - London
PB  - Hurst & Company
KW  - Foreign workers, Mozambican
KW  - South Africa
KW  - History
KW  - Miners
KW  - Railroads
KW  - Africa, Southern
N1  - Previously issued in print: 2020; Includes bibliographical references and index; Specialized
N2  - The full physical & social cost of South Africa's 20th century mining revolution, based on the exploitation of cheap, commoditised, black, migrant labour, has yet to be fully understood. The success of the system, which contributed to the evolution of the policies of spatial segregation & apartheid, depended, in large measure, on the physical distance between the labourer's home & places of work being successfully bridged by steam locomotives & a rail network. These night trains left deep scars in the urban & rural cultures of black communities, whether in the form of popular songs or in a belief in nocturnal witches' trains that captured & conveyed zombie workers to the region's most unpopular places of employment. Through careful analysis of the contrasting inward- & outward-bound legs of the migrants' rail journey, the author shows how black bodies were 'recruited', transported & worked in the repressive system
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