Liquor and labor in Southern Africa / edited by Jonathan Crush and Charles Ambler.

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9780585076720

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Crush, J. S.

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1 online resource (xv, 432 pages) : illustrations, maps

Contents:

Alcohol in Southern African labor history / Charles Ambler and Jonathan Crush -- Liquor and labor in the Western Cape, 1870-1900 / Pamela Scully -- Drink and cultural innovation in Durban : the origins of the beerhall in South Africa, 1902-1916 / Paul La Hausse -- The "Durban system" and the limits of colonial power in Salisbury, 1890-1935 / Richard Pary -- Prohibition and illicit liquor on the Witwatersrand, 1902-1932 / Julie Baker -- Alcohol and resistance on the South African gold mines, 1903-1962 / Dunbar Moodie -- The role of alcohol in labor acquisition and control on the Natal coalmines, 1911-1938 / Ruth Edgecombe -- "We women will show them" : beer protests in the Natal countryside, 1929 / Helen Bradford -- Beer brewing in Umtata : women, migrant labor, and social control in a rural town / Sean Redding -- Beer drinking and labor migration in the Transkei : the invention of a ritual tradition / Patrick McAllister.

(cont.) Backs to the fence : law, liquor, and the search for social control in an East Rand Town, 1929-1942 / Philip Bonner -- Drinking Apartheid and the removal of beerhalls in Johannesburg, 1939-1962 / Christian Rogerson -- Alcohol and the control of labor on the copperbelt / Charles Ambler -- The construction of compound authority : drinking at Havelock, 1938-1944 / Jonathan Crush -- The Shebeen Queen and the evolution of Botswana's sorghum beer industry / Steven Haggblade.

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Subject Term:

Drinking of alcoholic beverages -- South Africa -- History.

Working class -- South Africa -- History.

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Crush, J. S.

Ambler, Charles H.

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Electronic Resources

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Publication Date:

1992

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Summary

In June 1976 political demonstrations in the black township of Soweto exploded into an insurrection that would continue sporadically and spread to urban areas across South Africa. In their assault on apartheid the youths who spearheaded the rebellion attacked and often destroyed the state institutions that they linked to their oppression: police stations, government offices, schools, and state-owned liquor outlets. In Soweto alone during the first days of the revolt protestors smashed and burned eighteen beerhalls and a similar number of bottle stores; as the rebellion spread more were destroyed. This study sets out to demonstrate that liquor outlets were not simply convenient symbols of oppression. The anger that launched gasoline bombs into beerhalls across South Africa had specific origins in deep and complicated struggles over the control of alcohol production and consumption in South Africa.
Conflict over alcohol has continuously intruded upon the lives of the black residents of southern African towns, cities, and labor compounds and upon the rural communities to which these people traced their origins. Yet the subject has received little systematic scholarly attention until now. In "Liquor and Labor in Southern Africa" scholars explore the complex relationship between alcohol use and the emergence of the modern urban-industrial system. In examining the role of alcohol in social control and the state, they also reveal the vibrant subcultures nurtured in beerhalls and underground shebeens and expose the bitter conflicts over alcohol that run along the fault lines of age, gender, class, and ethnicity.