New Babylon New Nineveh - Charles van Onselen

Studies in Social and Economic History of the Witwatersrand 1886-1914: 1. New Babylon 2. New Nineveh by Charles van Onselen is the original two-volume set as it was first published.

New Babylon looks at the liquor sellers, prostitutes and cab drivers and New Nineveh looks at the domestic servants of the white middle class, working-class Afrikaners and the men of the 'Regiment of the Hills' - the Witwatersrand's black workers