Treating white poverty in interwar South Africa: 'Civilised labour' and the construction of Groote Schuur Hospital 1926-1938

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2005

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Phillips, Howard
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South African Journal of Economic History

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University of Cape Town

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Department of Historical Studies
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So central to the South African state's interwar labour policies was the notion of 'civilised labour' that contemporary scholars as distinguished as Hancock, De Kiewiet and Hutt used that label as chapter titles to characterise those policies as a whole. To them its significance in the bigger picture of South Africa's history was clear. In Hancock's opinion, it gave explicit expression to the fundamental conviction "that 'civilization' and 'whiteness' are aspects of the same thing".
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Phillips, H. (2005). Treating White poverty in interwar South Africa: 'civilised labour'and the construction of Groote Schuur Hospital 1926-1938. South African Journal of Economic History, 20(2), 109-130.

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