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.

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