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White but poor : essays on the history of poor whites in Southern Africa 1880-1940

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dc.contributor.editor Morrell, Robert
dc.date.accessioned 2015-10-14T08:38:39Z
dc.date.available 2015-10-14T08:38:39Z
dc.date.issued 1992 en
dc.identifier.isbn 0869817299 en
dc.identifier.isbn 9780869817292
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10500/19539
dc.description.tableofcontents Preface (pages xi-xii) -- Introduction. The poor whites : a social force and a social problem in South African history / Bill Freund (pages xiii-xxiii) -- chapter 1. The poor whites of Middelburg, Transvaal, 1900-1930 : resistance, accommodation and class struggle / Robert Morrell (pages 1-28) -- chapter 2. The Orange Free State and the Rebellion of 1914 : the influence of industrialization, poverty and poor whiteism / John Bottomley (pages 29-39) -- chapter 3. 'God het ons arm mense die houtjies gegee' : poor white woodcutters in the southern Cape forest area, c. 1900-1939 / Albert Grundlingh (pages 40-56) -- chapter 4. Time to trek : landless whites and poverty in the northern Natal countryside, 1902-1939 / Verne Harris (pages 57-74) -- chapter 5. 'Digging a way into the working class' : unemployment and consciousness amongst the Afrikaner poor on the Lichtenburh alluvial diggings, 1926-1929 / Tim Clynick (pages 75-100) -- chapter 6. White railway labour in South Africa, 1873-1924 / Gordon Pitie (pages 101-114) -- chapter 7. Slums, segregation and poor whites in Johannesburg, 2910-1934 / Susan Parnell (pages 115-129) -- chapter 8. Minute substance versus substantial fear : white destitution and the shaping of policy in Rhodesia in the 1890s / Philip Stigger (pages 130-150) -- chapter 9. Education and Southern Rhodesia's poor whites, 1890-1930 / Bob Challiss (pages 151-170)
dc.format.extent 1 online resource (xxiii, 224 pages) : illustrations, maps
dc.language English
dc.language.iso en
dc.publisher Pretoria : University of South Africa
dc.relation.ispartofseries Miscellanea specialia ; 8
dc.subject.classification History
dc.subject.classification Sociology
dc.subject.ddc 305.5690968
dc.subject.lcsh Poor -- Africa, Southern
dc.subject.lcsh Whites -- Africa, Southern -- Economic conditions
dc.subject.lcsh Africa, Southern -- Economic conditions
dc.subject.lcsh Africa, Southern -- Social conditions
dc.title White but poor : essays on the history of poor whites in Southern Africa 1880-1940 en
dc.title.alternative History of poor whites in Southern Africa, 1880-1940
dc.title.alternative Poor whites in Southern Africa 1880-1940
dc.type Book


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