Living Under Apartheid

Aspects of Urbanization and Social Change in South Africa
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-55205-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 270 Seiten, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 216 mm

Reihe: Routledge Revivals

Originally published in 1982, this book covers the unique spatial structure of society which was South Africa under apartheid. It brings together a cohesive set of research-based contributions to the understanding of this system which was without contemporary parallels. The book considers issues such as industrial location and migrant labour at a national scale. The case studies, which are fully illustrated, deal with problems associated with work and housing for blacks, set in the 3 major metropolitan areas of Cape Town, the Witwatersrand and Durban. Of particular importance is the emphasis given to so-called ‘spontaneous’ (or ‘squatter’) settlement and to informal-sector work for blacks in the emerging apartheid city – something which links directly with central issues of development studies.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Smith, David M.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction David M. Smith 1. The Evolution of Unequal Development Within South Africa: An Overview John Browett 2. Urbanization and Social Change Under Apartheid: Some Recent Developments David M. Smith 3. Apartheid, Decentralization and Spatial Industrial Change Christian M. Rogerson 4. Migrant Labour and Frontier Commuters: Reorganizing South Africa’s Black Labour Supply Anthony Lemon 5. Urbanization in the Homelands P. Smit, J. J. Oliver and J. J Booysen 6. The Informal Sector of the Apartheid City: The Pavement People of Johannesburg K.S.O. Beavon and C.M. Rogerson 7. Urbanization, Unemployment and Petty Commodity Production and Trading: Comparative Cases in Cape Town D. Dewar and V. Watson 8. Informal Housing and Informal Employment: Case Studies in the Durban Metropolitan Region Gavin Maasdorp 9. Segregation and Interpersonal Relationships: A Case Study of Domestic Service in Durban 10. Council Housing for Low-Income Indian Families in Durban: Objectives, Strategies and Effects Peter Corbett 11. Government Dispensation, Capitalist Imperative or Liberal Philanthropy? Responses to the Black housing crisis in South Africa J. P. Lea 12. The Geography of Urban Social Control: Group Areas and the 1976 and 1980 Civil Unrest in Cape Town John Western.

Über Autor(innen)

David M. Smith was Emeritus Professor of Geography at Queen Mary, University of London.