tailieunhanh - Going for Broke

A valuable study of past policy failures and future policy options, the book is primarily aimed at policy-makers and students of rural development. It is explicitly aimed at promoting new approaches, synergies and partnerships amongst stakeholders, including government, commercial farmers, agricultural co-operatives, municipalities, training agencies, and farm worker trade unions. | Free download from Going for broke The fate of farm workers in arid South Africa Doreen Atkinson Free download from Published by HSRC Press Private Bag X9182 Cape Town 8000 South Africa 2007 Human Sciences Research Council First published 2007 The views expressed in this publication are those of the authors. They do not necessarily reflect the views or policies of the Human Sciences Research Council the Council or indicate that the Council endorses the views of the authors. In quoting from this publication readers are advised to attribute the source of the information to the individual author concerned and not to the Council. ISBN 10 0-7969-2176-8 ISBN 13 978-0-7969-2176-5 Copyedited by Angela du Preez Typeset by Jenny Wheeldon Cover design by Flame Design Cover photo by Doreen Atkinson Print management by comPress Distributed in Africa by Blue Weaver Tel 27 0 21 701 4477 Fax 27 0 21 701 7302 Distributed in Europe and the United Kingdom by Eurospan Distribution Services EDS Tel 44 0 20 7240 0856 Fax 44 0 20 7379 0609 bookstore Distributed in North America by Independent Publishers Group IPG Call toll-free 800 888 4741 Fax 1 312 337 5985 Contents Free download from List of tables vi Acknowledgements viii Acronyms x Map of South Africa s arid areas xii Chapter 1 The unseen plight of farm workers in South Africa 1 The aims of the book 1 Farmers government farm workers and the unresolved policy void 3 The argument 8 A note on concepts and statistics 11 The genesis of this study 13 Chapter 2 The rise of an unfree labour system before 1970 15 Multiple perspectives of a complex history 15 Race land and labour in South Africa in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries 23 The origins of the master-servant relationship after 1850 27 Entrenching farm labour servility after 1913 farms as total institutions 34 The leaven in the dough .