1.
Kaarsholm, Preben; Frederiksen, Bodil Folke
Amaoti and Pumwani: Studying Urban Informality in South Africa and Kenya Journal Article
In: African Studies, vol. 79, iss. 1, pp. 51-73, 2019.
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2.
Ulrich, Nicole
“Journeying into Freedom”: Traditions of Desertion at the Cape of Good Hope, 1652-1795 Book Chapter
In: Rediker, Marcus; Chakraborty, Titas; van Rossum, Matthias (Ed.): A Global History of Runaways: Workers, Mobility and Capitalism, 1600-1850, pp. 115-134, 2019.
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3.
Byrne, Sian; Ulrich, Nicole; van der Walt, Lucien
Red, Black and Gold: FOSATU, South African Workerism, Syndicalism and the Nation Book Chapter
In: Webster, Edward; Pampillas, Karin (Ed.): The Unresolved National Question in South Africa, pp. 254-273, 2017.
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4.
Kaarsholm, Preben
Indian Ocean Networks and the Transmutations of Servitude: The Protector of Indian Immigrants and the Administration of Freed Slaves and Indentured Labourers in Durban in the 1870s Journal Article
In: Journal of Southern African Studies, vol. 42, iss. 3, pp. 443-461, 2016.
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2019
Kaarsholm, Preben; Frederiksen, Bodil Folke
Amaoti and Pumwani: Studying Urban Informality in South Africa and Kenya Journal Article
In: African Studies, vol. 79, iss. 1, pp. 51-73, 2019.
Abstract | Tags: africa, contemporary, informality, kenya, qualitative research, South Africa, urbanity
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Ulrich, Nicole
“Journeying into Freedom”: Traditions of Desertion at the Cape of Good Hope, 1652-1795 Book Chapter
In: Rediker, Marcus; Chakraborty, Titas; van Rossum, Matthias (Ed.): A Global History of Runaways: Workers, Mobility and Capitalism, 1600-1850, pp. 115-134, 2019.
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2017
Byrne, Sian; Ulrich, Nicole; van der Walt, Lucien
Red, Black and Gold: FOSATU, South African Workerism, Syndicalism and the Nation Book Chapter
In: Webster, Edward; Pampillas, Karin (Ed.): The Unresolved National Question in South Africa, pp. 254-273, 2017.
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2016
Kaarsholm, Preben
Indian Ocean Networks and the Transmutations of Servitude: The Protector of Indian Immigrants and the Administration of Freed Slaves and Indentured Labourers in Durban in the 1870s Journal Article
In: Journal of Southern African Studies, vol. 42, iss. 3, pp. 443-461, 2016.
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