The Work of Repair : : Capacity after Colonialism in the Timber Plantations of South Africa / / Thomas Cousins.
In the timber plantations in northeastern South Africa, laborers work long hours among tall, swaying lines of eucalypts, on land once theirs. In 2008, at the height of the HIV/AIDS crisis, timber corporations distributed hot cooked meals as a nutrition intervention to bolster falling productivity an...
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