The Workers' Museum
Restored migrant-worker hostel with concrete bunks and a punishment room recalling apartheid-era labour conditions.
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This guide to The Workers' Museum in Johannesburg centers on the concrete sleeping bunks of a 1913 compound built to house African migrant workers at Johannesburg's electricity plant, controlled and counted under the same logic as the gold mines. It traces the conditions those men lived under, working eleven months a year without their families, and the punishment room where a compound manager held near total power over rule-breakers. Reach out and feel the cold concrete lip that once separated one sleeping man from the next.
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