Camaraderie and its Discontents: Class Consciousness, Ethnicity and Divergent Masculinities among Zimbabwean Migrant Farmworkers in South Africa.
As a result of Zimbabwe's economic troubles and displacement, the Zimbabwean workforces on South Africa's border farms display a heightening diversity of regional origins, languages, ages, ethnicities and class histories. This article asks what happens to class consciousness under such conditions. I...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Southern African Studies Vol. 36; no. 2; pp. 377 - 394 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Jun2010
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