Brewers, Beerhalls and Boycotts: A History of Liquor in South Africa by Paul la Hausse (Used)

'We can no longer tolerate our father's pay-packets being emptied on drink!' So said the Soweto Student's Representative Council during the Soweto Uprising in 1976. Liquor has long been at the centre of conflicts inn South Africa. The authorities have tried to control the drinking of alcohol ad to profit from it. Fierce black resistance to these attempts has often been rooted in struggles over low wages and the harsh conditions of urban life. Paul la Hausse's book traces this history from early industrial times to the present. It vividly illuminates both the making of industrial South Africa and the way in which working men and women have struggled to cope with hardships imposed upon them. 

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