Ekurhuleni :
Bonner, P. L.,
Ekurhuleni : the making of an urban region / Philip Bonner & Noor Nieftagodien with Sello Mathabatha. - 1 online resource (286 pages) : illustrations, maps
Includes bibliographical references (pages 246-250) and index.
Tracing the contours of Ekurhuleni -- White workers and their struggles, 1907-1924 -- Constructing black Ekurhuleni, 1890-1927 -- Ekurhuleni's insubordinate women, 1918-1945 -- Social worlds and social strains in industrializing Ekurhuleni -- Squatter camps and immigrant culture -- Turning point 1940s -- The first steps in social engineering, reconfiguring space -- Black politics in Ekurhuleni in the mid-1950s -- Making of a modern economy -- Apartheid's heyday in Ekurhuleni -- The student movement of 1976 -- Ekurhuleni and the struggle against apartheid -- A time of insurrection -- Politics of the stalemate -- The politics of transition -- City of fragments -- Informal and contentious city.
9781868145430 9781868145997 (e-book)
Ekurhuleni (South Africa)--History.
Ekurhuleni (South Africa)--Politics and government.
Electronic books.
DT2405.E46 / B66 2012eb
968.224
Ekurhuleni : the making of an urban region / Philip Bonner & Noor Nieftagodien with Sello Mathabatha. - 1 online resource (286 pages) : illustrations, maps
Includes bibliographical references (pages 246-250) and index.
Tracing the contours of Ekurhuleni -- White workers and their struggles, 1907-1924 -- Constructing black Ekurhuleni, 1890-1927 -- Ekurhuleni's insubordinate women, 1918-1945 -- Social worlds and social strains in industrializing Ekurhuleni -- Squatter camps and immigrant culture -- Turning point 1940s -- The first steps in social engineering, reconfiguring space -- Black politics in Ekurhuleni in the mid-1950s -- Making of a modern economy -- Apartheid's heyday in Ekurhuleni -- The student movement of 1976 -- Ekurhuleni and the struggle against apartheid -- A time of insurrection -- Politics of the stalemate -- The politics of transition -- City of fragments -- Informal and contentious city.
9781868145430 9781868145997 (e-book)
Ekurhuleni (South Africa)--History.
Ekurhuleni (South Africa)--Politics and government.
Electronic books.
DT2405.E46 / B66 2012eb
968.224