TY - BOOK AU - Bonner,P.L. AU - Nieftagodien,Noor AU - Mathabatha,S. ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - Ekurhuleni: the making of an urban region SN - 9781868145430 AV - DT2405.E46 B66 2012eb U1 - 968.224 23 PY - 2012/// CY - Johannesburg, South Africa PB - Wits University Press KW - Ekurhuleni (South Africa) KW - History KW - Politics and government KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - 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 UR - http://ezproxy.alfaisal.edu/login?url=http://site.ebrary.com/lib/alfaisal/Doc?id=11058465 ER -