Preface (pages xi-xii) -- Introduction. The poor whites : a social force and a social problem in South African history / Bill Freund (pages xiii-xxiii) -- chapter 1. The poor whites of Middelburg, Transvaal, 1900-1930 : resistance, accommodation and class struggle / Robert Morrell (pages 1-28) -- chapter 2. The Orange Free State and the Rebellion of 1914 : the influence of industrialization, poverty and poor whiteism / John Bottomley (pages 29-39) -- chapter 3. 'God het ons arm mense die houtjies gegee' : poor white woodcutters in the southern Cape forest area, c. 1900-1939 / Albert Grundlingh (pages 40-56) -- chapter 4. Time to trek : landless whites and poverty in the northern Natal countryside, 1902-1939 / Verne Harris (pages 57-74) -- c...