Book contents
- Poverty Knowledge in South Africa
- Poverty Knowledge in South Africa
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: the poverty question in South Africa
- Part I Lay knowledge meets human science, 1855–1940
- Part II The limits of invention
- Part III The people’s facts
- 5 Agitation through quantification
- 6 From people’s power to corporate power
- 7 Contested measures
- Conclusion
- Epilogue: the National Development Plan debate
- Select Bibliography
- Index
5 - Agitation through quantification
White student activists in the era of black consciousness
from Part III - The people’s facts
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 February 2015
- Poverty Knowledge in South Africa
- Poverty Knowledge in South Africa
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: the poverty question in South Africa
- Part I Lay knowledge meets human science, 1855–1940
- Part II The limits of invention
- Part III The people’s facts
- 5 Agitation through quantification
- 6 From people’s power to corporate power
- 7 Contested measures
- Conclusion
- Epilogue: the National Development Plan debate
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Summary
- Type
- Chapter
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- Poverty Knowledge in South AfricaA Social History of Human Science, 1855–2005, pp. 179 - 215Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2015