Children of a bitter harvest

The stories in Children of a Bitter Harvest document moments in the lives of children who worked in the heart of South Africa’s wine industry between 1996 and 2010, as framed by the uprisings on farms at the start of 2013. The book is made up of over 100 interconnected flashes, or fragments of stories, taken from the lives of farm workers, farmers, child workers, human rights lawyers, and ordinary people affected by the agricultural industry in the Western Cape.

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Product Information

Format:

210 x 148 mm

Pages:

128

ISBN-13:

978-0-9922-0851-6

Publish Year:

November 2013

Rights:

World Rights

Contents page

Contents
Preface
Introduction
Setting the scene
Chapter 1 – A brief history of child labour in South Africa
Chapter 2 – The boys from Aliwal North
Chapter 3 – Rawsonville
Chapter 4 – Zwelethemba (Place of Hope)
References
About the author
Index

Susan Levine is a senior lecturer in the School of Gender and African Studies, Anthropology and Linguistics at the University of Cape Town. She has written extensively on the political economy of children’s work in South Africa’s wine industry. Her current research focuses on children’s subjective experiences of living with infectious illness in sub-Saharan Africa. The recipient of a Distinguished Teacher’s Award in 2011, Dr Levine is renowned for her experimental pedagogy in teaching medical anthropology.