• HISTORIES AND LEGACIES OF MIGRANT LABOUR IN NAMIBIA AND SWITZERLAND

HISTORIES AND LEGACIES OF MIGRANT LABOUR IN NAMIBIA AND SWITZERLAND

: Lenggenhager (L.), Miescher (G.), Ndahangwapo (S.) & Perniola (R.) eds.

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187pp., illus., paperback, Basler Afrika Bibliographien, Basel, 2026

ISBN: 9783906927664

 

A collection of essays that reveal the surprising similarities in labour history and its legacy in South African occupied Namibia and Switzerland in the second half of the 20th century.

Both the apartheid state and post-war Switzerland established an exploitative migrant labour system in which migrant labourers had only very limited rights and were marginalised or outright excluded from participation in public life and society in their places of work.

Contributions include:

"A Short History of the Migrant Labour System in Namibia" by Saima Nakuti Ndahangwapo

"Trade Unions and the Reform of the Migrant Labour Systems in Namibia and Switzerland, 1970-2007" by Niamh Christine O'Neill and Ndapewoshali Ndahafa Ilunga

"Public Remembrance of Contract Labour Systems in Namibia an Switzerland" by Corina Bucher, Ellen Sow and Kavenauarue Tjiuoro.