Going for Broke: The Fate of Farm Workers in Arid South Africa

An analysis of a forgotten section of society—the farm workers who live on remote farms. The author argues that the question of farm workers is part of a broader spectrum of economic and social questions. A valuable study explicitly aimed at promoting new approaches, synergies, and partnerships amongst stakeholders like government, cooperatives, municipalities, training agencies, and farm-worker trade unions. Atkinson offers suggestions that transcend the South Africa rural experience serving as a case study for students and practitioners of rural transformation in the developing world.