Keletso Atkins received her Ph.D. in African History from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1986. She is currently Assistant Professor in the Department of History, University of Michigan. She has published "Origins of the AmaWasha: The Zulu Washerman's Guild in Natal, 1850-1910," Journal of African History 27 (1986); and "Kafir Time': Preindustrial Temporal Concepts and Labour Discipline in Nineteenth Century Colonial Natal," Journal of African History 30 (1989). Her current research is on the early history of urban migrant workers in Natal, South Africa.