Outputs (2)

Poverty and respectability in early twentieth-century Cape Town (2018)
Journal Article
Dooling, W. (2018). Poverty and respectability in early twentieth-century Cape Town. The Journal of African History, 59(3), 411-435. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021853718000786

Cape Town's black population of the early twentieth century actively pursued lifestyles that might be described as respectable. But respectability was expensive, and poverty —characterised by poor housing, ill health and shortened lifespans — stood i... Read More about Poverty and respectability in early twentieth-century Cape Town.

‘Cape Town Knows, but She Forgets’: Segregation and the Making of a Housing Crisis during the First Half of the 20th Century (2018)
Journal Article
Dooling, W. (2018). ‘Cape Town Knows, but She Forgets’: Segregation and the Making of a Housing Crisis during the First Half of the 20th Century. Journal of Southern African Studies, 44(6), 1057-1076. https://doi.org/10.1080/03057070.2018.1548135

The city of Cape Town experienced a severe housing crisis during the first half of the 20th century, the immediate origins of which were to be found in demographic growth fuelled by natural increase as well as inward migration. The deeper roots of th... Read More about ‘Cape Town Knows, but She Forgets’: Segregation and the Making of a Housing Crisis during the First Half of the 20th Century.