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Book Synopsis A History of African Popular Culture by : Karin Barber
Download or read book A History of African Popular Culture written by Karin Barber and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-11 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A journey through the history of African popular culture from the seventeenth century to the present day.
Book Synopsis Going for Gold by : T. Dunbar Moodie
Download or read book Going for Gold written by T. Dunbar Moodie and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1994-09-27 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An indispensable look at the working conditions, social lives, and collective action of black miners. . . . [Moodie's] meticulous, reflective, incessantly questioning approach to power, drink, sexuality, conflict, and routine life in mines and compounds reveals an extraordinary world at the edge of hope and desperation."—Charles Tilly, The New School for Social Research "Combines a rigorous use of theory with a marvellous and sensitive sympathy."—Terence O. Ranger, co-editor of The Invention of Tradition
Book Synopsis Madness, Mining, and Migration in the U.S. and the Pacific, 1848-1900 by : Angela Suzanne Hawk
Download or read book Madness, Mining, and Migration in the U.S. and the Pacific, 1848-1900 written by Angela Suzanne Hawk and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1848 and 1863, a series of major gold rushes in California, British Columbia, and Victoria, Australia, triggered mass migrations of mostly male, young, would-be miners from throughout the Pacific Rim region and the world. The influx of migrants hoping to strike it rich in the turbulent social and economic environment of gold country invariably included numerous persons who were deemed `insane' and channeled into the regions' growing network of jails, hospitals, and asylums. This dissertation engages the history of these `mad' migrants and poses central questions about connections between `madness' and migration on the Anglophone mining frontier: how did migratory trajectories of `mad' persons shape their encounters with regional institutions and what contributing role did such institutions play in charting those trajectories? The answer, I argue, lies in a transnational understanding of nineteenth-century mobility. As elsewhere in the industrializing world of the nineteenth century, life and work in these three regions required greater geographical mobility than ever before. Through a focus on the migration corridor formed by the Pacific Rim gold rushes, I demonstrate that fluidity, flux, and border crossing were as much a part of the experiences of people considered `mad as their `sane' counterparts. Except in the most severe cases, `mad' migrants remained part of a larger pattern of transnational occupational mobility that was punctuated, rather than terminated, by a series of encounters with jails, asylums, and hospitals. The outcomes of such encounters--whether they resulted in a long-term commitment, a perpetual cycle of admission and release, or a transfer to another institution--depended not only on the timing and severity of the person's condition, but also on where on fell into the social categories of race, class, gender and nationality. Traditional, asylum-centered approaches to the history of psychiatry largely occlude from view these complex, migratory journeys through settler colonial systems of containment. I therefore argue for a new analytical approach to the international study of `madness, ' one that takes a wide-angle view of patients' life experiences and treats the asylum as only one of many possible waypoints for persons deemed `insane' in the nineteenth century.
Book Synopsis The Mining Industry in Sub-Saharan Africa by : Elodie Marlet
Download or read book The Mining Industry in Sub-Saharan Africa written by Elodie Marlet and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This doctoral dissertation establishes a comprehensive overview of the impacts of the mining industry in Sub-Saharan in three different sectors: gender-specific effects on employment, change in subnational migration flows and subsequent impacts on households’ welfare, and finally, the effects of remittances sent from mining regions on recipient households’ expenditures. Chapter 1 analyzes whether the mining industry has gender-specific labor allocation effects in local mining communities. I leverage spatial and temporal variation in mines location and production in 29 Sub-Saharan countries. Women are found to leave the labor market after a mine opens nearby, but that effect is mitigated by a small increase in employment in supporting services. Inversely, men are able to increase overall labor supply, mainly in skilled and unskilled manual labor. However, mining policies recently implemented by producing countries, such as Minerals Development Funds, have the ability to mitigate the negative impacts on women’s employment thanks to the reinvestment of royalties in the local community. Finally, I use the gold mining industry of Ghana as a case study to measure the role of pollution on mines’ employment effects. I find that pollution accounts for 38% of the decrease in women’s agricultural employment after a mine opens but doesn’t significantly affect men. These negative labor effects could be overturned with effective environmental regulations. Chapter 2 estimates the change in households’ welfare and land prices in Ghanaian mining districts using both a theoretical and empirical model. In the former, I elaborate and calibrate a spatial general equilibrium model with spatial linkages in trade and migration to compute the change in welfare and agricultural land prices following a mine opening. This shock is represented by a shock in productivity, a change in the production function’s parameters and a reduction in migration costs. The latter two changes are calibrated using households census, roads maps, and microenterprise surveys from Ghana. Following a mining shock, welfare increases by 1.3% on average in treated districts thanks to an increase in wages, which mitigates the spike of 11.5% in land rental rates. The empirical model, building on spatial and temporal variation in mining activity and an instrumental variable strategy, supports these findings. Finally, results indicate a significant change in indirect utility and land rental rates up to 200kms from the treated district and shed a new light on the mechanisms through which a mining boom can spread to nearby regions. Chapter 3 takes a fresh look at the long-standing debate on the effects of remittances on households’ welfare using Ghana as a case study. More specifically, this chapter studies the differential impacts on households’ expenditures of two different types of remittances: remittances sent from mining regions of Ghana and those sent from abroad. Thanks to two different instrumental variable strategies, I am able to show that both types of remittances appear to alleviate the budget constraint of poorer households located in the lower quartiles of income distribution. In fact, they increase their total expenditures but also the fraction of expenses spent on education, food and non-food items. On the opposite, richer households who receive remittances do not reallocate expenditures, indicating non-binding budget constraints. I also analyze how domestic shocks alter these patterns. First, following a negative shock in gold prices (which might signal higher volatility in mining regions’ revenue), mining remittances receiving households will smooth their consumption by reducing the increase in education and non-food items expenditures. On the other hand, following a national currency appreciation, international remittances receiving households will be able to significantly increase their total expenditures and experience lower food burden compared to other households. Thus, households receiving international remittances seem to be better protected against negative economic shocks as they are able to mitigate any negative effects on their expenditures, contrary to households receiving remittances from mining regions.
Book Synopsis Undermining Labour by : David A. McDonald
Download or read book Undermining Labour written by David A. McDonald and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study was conducted in 1998. The survey interviwed 501 migrants from other countries living in South Africa.
Book Synopsis Migration, Mining, and the African Diaspora by : B. Josiah
Download or read book Migration, Mining, and the African Diaspora written by B. Josiah and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-11-07 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the late 1800s, African workers migrated to the mineral-rich hinterland areas of Guyana, mined gold, diamonds, and bauxite; diversified the country's economy; and contributed to national development. Utilizing real estate, financial, and death records, as well as oral accounts of the labor migrants along with colonial officials and mining companies' information stored in National Archives in Guyana, Great Britain, and the U.S. Library of Congress, the study situates miners into the historical structure of the country's economic development. It analyzes the workers attraction to mining from agriculture, their concepts of "order and progress," and how they shaped their lives in positive ways rather than becoming mere victims of colonialism. In this contentious plantation society plagued by adversarial relations between the economic elites and the laboring class, in addition to producing the strategically important bauxite for the aviation era of World Wars I & II, for almost a century the workers braved the ecologically hostile and sometimes deadly environments of the gold and diamond fields in the quest for El Dorado in Guyana.
Book Synopsis Mule and Black-tailed Deer of North America by : Olof C. Wallmo
Download or read book Mule and Black-tailed Deer of North America written by Olof C. Wallmo and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Developed in co-operation with U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service.
Book Synopsis Migration to Mining by : Australian Society of the History of Medicine. Conference
Download or read book Migration to Mining written by Australian Society of the History of Medicine. Conference and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Between the Rainbows and the Rain by : Philip H. Frankel
Download or read book Between the Rainbows and the Rain written by Philip H. Frankel and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2013 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Rainbows" dissects the South African 'miracle' across a vast landscape from the shack settlements of Marikana to the highest levels of government and corporate behaviour in the South Africa mining industry. It sets out what we know about the Markana massacre against the background of hazardous work conditions in the mines two decades after 'liberation'. Going well beyond the Farlam Commission of Inquiry it also examines, for the first time, the nightmare world of labour broking-cum-human trafficking. It evaluates the prospects for improving life in the near-mine communities that magnetise the poor and jobless in a society ranked among the most unequal, in the world. The book is essential reading for anyone interested in a country of iconic proportions whose political and economic leadership is fast losing capacity to service basic human needs and disappointed popular aspirations. This includes readers in the mining sector, in ethical investment circles across the globe, labour activists, academics, opinion-makers, government and anyone else with an interest in human rights and social justice.
Book Synopsis African American Miners and Migrants by : Thomas E. Wagner
Download or read book African American Miners and Migrants written by Thomas E. Wagner and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas E. Wagner and Phillip J. Obermiller's African American Miners and Migrants documents the lives of Eastern Kentucky Social Club (EKSC) members, a group of black Appalachians who left the eastern Kentucky coalfields and their coal company hometowns in Harlan County. Bound together by segregation, the inherent dangers of mining, and coal company paternalism, it might seem that black miners and mountaineers would be eager to forget their past. Instead, members of the EKSC have chosen to celebrate their Harlan County roots. African American Miners and Migrants uses historical and archival research and extensive personal interviews to explore their reasons and the ties that still bind them to eastern Kentucky. The book also examines life in the model coal towns of Benham and Lynch in the context of Progressive Era policies, the practice of welfare capitalism, and the contemporary national trend of building corporate towns and planned communities.
Book Synopsis Large-scale Mines and Local-level Politics by : Colin Filer
Download or read book Large-scale Mines and Local-level Politics written by Colin Filer and published by ANU Press. This book was released on 2017-10-20 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the difference in their populations and political status, New Caledonia and Papua New Guinea have comparable levels of economic dependence on the extraction and export of mineral resources. For this reason, the costs and benefits of large-scale mining projects for indigenous communities has been a major political issue in both jurisdictions, and one that has come to be negotiated through multiple channels at different levels of political organisation. The ‘resource boom’ that took place in the early years of the current century has only served to intensify the political contests and conflicts that surround the distribution of social, economic and environmental costs and benefits between community members and other ‘stakeholders’ in the large-scale mining industry. However, the mutual isolation of Anglophone and Francophone scholars has formed a barrier to systematic comparison of the relationship between large-scale mines and local-level politics in Papua New Guinea and New Caledonia, despite their geographical proximity. This collection of essays represents an effort to overcome this barrier, but is also intended as a major contribution to the growth of academic and political debate about the social impact of the large-scale mining industry in Melanesia and beyond.
Download or read book The Hard-rock Men written by John Rowe and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Botswana Mine Labour Migration to South Africa by : Carol Kerven
Download or read book Botswana Mine Labour Migration to South Africa written by Carol Kerven and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Vanishing Frontiers by : Andrew Selee
Download or read book Vanishing Frontiers written by Andrew Selee and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There may be no story today with a wider gap between fact and fiction than the relationship between the United States and Mexico. Wall or no wall, deeply intertwined social, economic, business, cultural, and personal relationships mean the US-Mexico border is more like a seam than a barrier, weaving together two economies and cultures. Mexico faces huge crime and corruption problems, but its remarkable transformation over the past two decades has made it a more educated, prosperous, and innovative nation than most Americans realize. Through portraits of business leaders, migrants, chefs, movie directors, police officers, and media and sports executives, Andrew Selee looks at this emerging Mexico, showing how it increasingly influences our daily lives in the United States in surprising ways -- the jobs we do, the goods we consume, and even the new technology and entertainment we enjoy. From the Mexican entrepreneur in Missouri who saved the US nail industry, to the city leaders who were visionary enough to build a bridge over the border fence so the people of San Diego and Tijuana could share a single international airport, to the connections between innovators in Mexico's emerging tech hub in Guadalajara and those in Silicon Valley, Mexicans and Americans together have been creating productive connections that now blur the boundaries that once separated us from each other.
Book Synopsis Migration Patterns of Skilled Tradesmen in Mining by : T. F. Cawsey
Download or read book Migration Patterns of Skilled Tradesmen in Mining written by T. F. Cawsey and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Labour migration and mining in Sierra Leon by : Kenneth Swindell
Download or read book Labour migration and mining in Sierra Leon written by Kenneth Swindell and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Migration and Mining by : Arthur Lawrence Stickell
Download or read book Migration and Mining written by Arthur Lawrence Stickell and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
