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Mabin fieldwork on Pilgrim's Rest land clearances

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Kind author survey or fieldwork
Producer Alan Mabin
Coverage 1970s-1980s
Works using it 2

Debates

Debate Works
Agrarian transition to capitalism and the fate of the African peasantry 2
Farm labour: mechanisation, labour shedding, wages and labour control 1
Homelands, separate development, decentralisation and removals 1

Works using this source

Work As cited Period How used
Mabin (1991a) Author's study of the Pilgrim's Rest land clearances (Mabin 1987) and fieldwork case material 1972-1980s Case evidence of the effects of eviction of labour tenants, including the household count of those still working on farms and the case of Jan Masinga.
Mabin (1991b) Author's fieldwork on the Pilgrims' Rest land clearances and labour tenant evictions (Mabin 1987, 1989) 1970s-1980s Supplies the illustrative cases of Jan Masinga and the 6500 people evicted at Pilgrims' Rest, of whom only about 150 households retain migrant or commuter links to the farms.