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RAMPHELE, MAMPHELA - A Bed Called Home: Life in the Migrant Labour Hostels of Cape Town

Title: A Bed Called Home: Life in the Migrant Labour Hostels of Cape Town
Description: Cape Town, David Philip. 1993, First Edition. (ISBN: 086486227X) Soft Cover, 9.75 x 6.5 inches. Ill.: Roger Meintjes. Previous owner's name to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers or to spine. Clean very slightly tanned pages in a tight binding with bright slightly rubbed boards. 152pp. The author documents the life of the hostel dwellers of Cape Town, for whom a bed is literally a home for both themselves and their families. Well illustrated. Good.

Keywords: South Africa, Transvaal, Hostels, Migrant Workers, Townships, Housing Anthropology Employment / Work 086486227x Roger Meintjes

Price: GBP 10.50 = appr. US$ 14.99 Seller: Godley Books
- Book number: 013451

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