<p>Includes bibliographical references and index.</p>

A note on currency -- Chatsworth -- Harinarian "Moses" Judhoo in the promised land -- How are these people even able to exist? -- A social timebomb starts ticking -- The struggle and its fruits : from the militant eighties to the end of apartheid -- "We are the poors" -- Upgrading the houses and the return of relocation -- Is it legal to be poor? : evictions and resistance -- Faces in the crowd -- Working life : from rags to tatters -- Thulisile Manqele's water -- Revolt in Isipingo -- Mpumalanga's liberated zone (co-authored with Heinrich Bohmke) -- Fighting neoliberalism in Soweto and Tafelsig -- Labor and community : the Volkswagen and Engen strikes -- Chatsworth re-ignites -- global and local : the world conference against racism and the Durban social forum -- Building a new movement? -- Durban Social Forum declaration.