Doornfontein and its African working class, 1914 to 1935 :|ba study of popular culture in Johannesburg

Abstract

this dissertation is a study of the culture that was made by the working people who lived in the slums of Johannesburg in the inter war years. This was a period in which a large proportion of the city's black working classes lived in slums that spread across the western, central and eastern districts of the central city area of Johannesburg. Only after the 1930 did the state effectively segregate the city and move most of the black working classes to the municipal locations that they live in today. The culture that was created in the slums of Johannesburg is significant for a number of reasons. This culture shows that the newly formed 1 urban African classes wore not merely the passive agents of capitalism