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| Title: | The reproduction of labour power and the struggle for survival in Soweto |
| Author: | Webster, David |
| Year: | 1984 |
| Issue: | 20 |
| Pages: | 13 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Carnegie conference paper |
| City of publisher: | Cape Town |
| Publisher: | SALDRU, School of economics, University of Cape Town |
| ISBN: | 0799206946 |
| Geographic term: | South Africa |
| Subjects: | segregation working class |
| Abstract: | The paper adresses the question of how working class communities in Soweto, faced with much the same material conditions as the school children who rose in 1976, subject to the same forms of oppression and exploitation, manage to creatively employ strategies for survival against such formidable odds. Many of the deep-lying causes of which the uporising was a symptom are still very much in place, still structuring political and economic life; not much has changed. Indeed, conditions in 1984 may well be worse. The narrative tells of how ordinary people, faced with awesome odds, eke out an existence in conditions of poverty and unemployment. |