TY - BOOK AU - Desai, Ashwin TI - We are the poors : community struggles in Post-Apartheid South Africa SN - 9781583670507 U1 - 305.5 DES PY - 2002/// CY - New York PB - Monthly Review Press KW - Blacks - South Africa - Economic conditions KW - South Africa - Economic policy KW - Poor - South Africa KW - Post-apartheid era - South Africa N1 -
Includes bibliographical references and index.
; 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 ER -