Migrant Labour After Apartheid : The Inside Story, Paperback by Bank, Leslie ...

Migrant Labour After Apartheid : The Inside Story, Paperback by Bank, Leslie J. (EDT); Posel, Dorrit (EDT); Wilson, Francis (EDT), ISBN 0796925798, ISBN-13 9780796925794, Brand New, Free shipping in the USThe authors examine how and why the dynamics of migrant labor have persisted or changed after apartheid in South Africa. They explore urbanization processes from the perspective of internal migration, including patterns and trends in labor migration, the economic returns to migration, the links between the migration of adults and children, and conditions of migrant workers in destination areas, focusing on Marikana and mining on the platinum belt. They discuss the double-rootedness of migrants, focusing on the Eastern Cape and the former Transkei, and how rural households have adapted to conditions since 1994 and how this has affected the rural social economy, including how urban residents in South Africa retain strong ties to their rural places of origin, as well as the limited opportunities for livelihood strategies in the countryside, which encourage out-migration, and areas of economic activity and the importance of rural spaces as places of belonging and investment and where social and cultural conditions are reproduced. This includes discussion of agricultural activities, the impact of prolonged labor migrancy, the changing value of cattle, the circulation of hidden resources between urban and rural South Africa, the increasing rates of household investment, and the role of women and matrifocal networks. The authors and additional contributors work in sociology, economics, development studies, and other fields in South Africa and Europe. Distributed in the US by Lynne Rienner Publishers. Annotation ©2020 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR ()