Originally published in 1982, this book covers the unique spatial structure of society which was South Africa under apartheid. It brings together a cohesive set of research-based contributions to the understanding of this system which was without contemporary parallels. The book considers issues such as industrial location and migrant labour at a national scale. The case studies, which are fully illustrated, deal with problems associated with work and housing for blacks, set in the 3 major metropolitan areas of Cape Town, the Witwatersrand and Durban. Of particular importance is the emphasis given to so-called 'spontaneous' (or 'squatter') settlement and to informal-sector work for blacks in the emerging apartheid city – something which links directly with central issues of development studies.
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Living Under Apartheid
Aspects of Urbanization and Social Change in South Africa
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Original Title Page
- Original Copyright Page
- Preface and acknowledgements
- Table of Contents
- List of tables
- Introduction
- 1 The evolution of unequal development within South Africa: an overview
- 2 Urbanization and social change under apartheid: some recent developments
- 3 Apartheid, decentralization and spatial industrial change
- 4 Migrant labour and frontier commuters: reorganizing South Africa’s Black labour supply
- 5 Urbanization in the homelands
- 6 The informal sector of the apartheid city: the pavement people of Johannesburg
- 7 Urbanization, unemployment and petty commodity production and trading: comparative cases in Cape Town
- 8 Informal housing and informal employment: case studies in the Durban Metropolitan Region
- 9 Segregation and interpersonal relationships: a case study of domestic service in Durban
- 10 Council housing for low-income Indian families in Durban: objectives, strategies and effects
- 11 Government dispensation, capitalist imperative or liberal philanthropy? Responses to the Black housing crisis in South Africa
- 12 The geography of urban social control: Group Areas and the 1976 and 1980 civil unrest in Cape Town
- Bibliography
- Contributors
- Index
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