- Title
- Citrus, labour and gender in the Eastern Cape: the case of the Kat River area
- Creator
- Mzitshi, Zoleka Alice Florence
- Subject
- Citrus -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Subject
- Citrus
- Subject
- Working class women -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Subject
- Sex role -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Subject
- Citrus fruit industry -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Date
- 2010
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- MSc (Geography)
- Identifier
- vital:11511
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10353/379
- Identifier
- Citrus -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Identifier
- Citrus
- Identifier
- Working class women -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Identifier
- Sex role -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Identifier
- Citrus fruit industry -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Description
- Agriculture plays a significant role in South Africa’s export earning and in providing employment opportunities. Amongst the major agricultural crops is citrus. Within the context of postmodern and feminist geographies and utilizing the intensive research design, this thesis discusses citrus production with a focus on growers and black women workers in the Kat River Valley area in Fort Beaufort, Eastern Cape. The thesis also explores the challenges and implications of restructuring within agriculture for growers, cooperatives and labour within the citrus industry. It is argued that whilst legislation related to labour and tenure within agriculture has changed since the mid-1990s, power relations in the citrus industry have remained firmly entrenched. Consequently, the flexible labour strategies that the citrus farmers adopted have had serious consequences for women worker
- Format
- 172 leaves; 30 cm
- Format
- Publisher
- University of Fort Hare
- Publisher
- Faculty of Science & Agriculture
- Language
- English
- Rights
- University of Fort Hare
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