Migrant Labour

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migrant labor force was created, who benefited from it and how it worked. To understand this we must go back to the beginning of colonialism in Africa.
With the arrival of the Dutch settlers to the Cape, little did the African people of Cape known that their lives would be changed forever. With the colonization of South Africa by the first Dutch settlers, also came the need for a cheap labor force for the large-scale white owned agricultural production and later labor within white urban areas. The Dutch believed that their darker skin counterparts were an inferior bread. They saw the natives of South Africa as an excellent source of cheap labor. However, the colonizers soon discovered that the original inhabitants of South Africa had a way of life that sustained them and that they had no wish to enter a money economy as laborers. Both the Dutch and the British settlers realized that they would have to eliminate the very way of life that sustained the Xhosa people. The ...

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class, as a strategic way of ensuring that the natives would stay within the ever growing wage labor economy(Browett,1982).
�Decreased production of the mines and the pre-capitalist mode of production�(Smith,1982), created a problem within the labor reserve. Which had now progressed to having three primary functions. One function of the reserve was a means of cheaply producing a black labor force. Secondly it was a dumping ground for surplus blacks no longer required by the white economy, in urban areas and thirdly as a means of keeping segregation policies between whites and blacks a live and well.
With he changing kind of economic direction toward a manufacturing/ ...

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