A lively collection of essays on all aspects of African life in the city of Durban during the twentieth century, including everything from crowds and violence to beer brewing, rickshaw pulling, and black popular music. Case histories of three particular African locations complement more familiar studies of workers and trade union organization, and political history. A marvelous photographic essay of historical Durban is included.
Also see:
- Dock Workers, Labour Circulation, and Class Struggles in Durban, 1940-59 by David Hemson, 1977
- Black Squatters in Durban 1935-50 by Paul Maylam, 1983
- Lynch Law and Labourers: The ICU in Umvoti, 1927-1928, Helen Bradford, 1984
- Origins of the Amawasha: The Zulu Washermen's Guild in Natal, 1850-1910, by Keletso Atkins, 1986
- The 1973 Durban Strikes, by Steven Friedman, 1987
- 'The Cows of Nongoloza': Youth, Crime and the Amalaita Gangs in Durban, 1900-1936 by Paul la Hausse, 1990
- Explaining the Apartheid City: 20 Years of South African Urban Historiography Author, by Paul Maylam, 1995
- The Struggle for Space in Twentieth Century Durban by Paul Maylam, 1996
- Cato Manor, June 1959: Men, Women, Crowds, Violence, Politics and History by Iain Edwards, 1996
- In the Forbidden Quarters: Shacks in Durban till the end of apartheid by Richard Pithouse, 2008
- Shacks in the Cracks of Apartheid: Industrial Women & the Changing Political Economy & Georgraphy of Intimacy, by Mark Hunter, 2010
