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Book Synopsis Labour in the South African Gold Mines 1911-1969 by : Francis Wilson
Download or read book Labour in the South African Gold Mines 1911-1969 written by Francis Wilson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-03 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 1972 book on the determination of wages amongst miners in South Africa.
Book Synopsis South Africa's Gold Mines & the Politics of Silicosis by : Jock McCulloch
Download or read book South Africa's Gold Mines & the Politics of Silicosis written by Jock McCulloch and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2012 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the silicosis crisis in the South African mining industry, and reveals how the rate of, often fatal, tuberculosis among black migrant miners was hidden for over a century. South Africa's gold mines are the largest and historically among the most profitable in the world. Yet at what human cost? This book reveals how the mining industry, abetted by a minority state, hid a pandemic of silicosis for almost a century and allowed miners infected with tuberculosis to spread disease to rural communities in South Africa and to labour-sending states. In the twentieth century, South African mines twice faced a crisis over silicosis, which put its workers at risk of contracting pulmonary tuberculosis, often fatal. The first crisis, 1896-1912, saw the mining industry invest heavily in reducing dust and South Africa became renowned for its mine safety. The second began in 2000 with mounting scientific evidence that the disease rate among miners is more than a hundred times higher than officially acknowledged. The first crisis also focused upon disease among the minority white miners: the current crisis is about black migrant workers, and is subject to major class actions for compensation. Jock McCulloch was a Legislative Research Specialist for the Australian parliament and has taught at various universities. His books include Asbestos Blues. Southern Africa (South Africa, Namibia, Lesotho, Swaziland & Botswana): Jacana
Book Synopsis The Gold Mines of the Rand by : Frederick Henry Hatch
Download or read book The Gold Mines of the Rand written by Frederick Henry Hatch and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book African Gold written by Roman Grynberg and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-04-22 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book explores the evolving economics of gold as a global commodity as well as the production and trade of gold in and from the African continent. The growth of gold as an increasingly important and diverse source of African wealth is examined, alongside the impact that the rise of China in the 21st century has had on the demand for gold. The volatility of the gold price has increased as a result of the dramatic decline of gold demand for manufacturing purposes. Gold is Africa’s second largest export after oil and is a perfect metaphor for a continent rich in resources while so much of its population lives in such dire poverty. The artisanal and small scale gold mining (ASGM) sector, is surprisingly widely perceived as being beneficial to the development of Africa despite its exploitation and dreadful health and environmental consequences. African Gold: Production, Trade and Economic Development considers policy issues regarding the gold mining sector, the economics of beneficiation, the retreat of jewelry manufacturing across the continent as well as ‘Africa’s golden future’. It is a relevant book for both academics and policymakers interested in Africa, natural resource, and development economics.
Book Synopsis The Gold Mines of the Rand by : Frederick Henry Hatch
Download or read book The Gold Mines of the Rand written by Frederick Henry Hatch and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Gold Mines of Southern Africa by : Owen Letcher
Download or read book The Gold Mines of Southern Africa written by Owen Letcher and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis South African Mines by : Charles Sydney Goldman
Download or read book South African Mines written by Charles Sydney Goldman and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis South Africa's Labor Empire by : Jonathan Crush
Download or read book South Africa's Labor Empire written by Jonathan Crush and published by David Philip Publishers. This book was released on 1991 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 380 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 Migrant Labour in South Africa's Mining Economy by : Alan Jeeves
Download or read book Migrant Labour in South Africa's Mining Economy written by Alan Jeeves and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1985 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Study of the origins of the migrant labour system in South Africa's gold mining industry. Traces the development of the recruiting system and discusses how the gold industry struggled against the internal divisions which created the competition for labour, until the Chamber of Mines, with the support of the State, centralized the system.
Download or read book Digging Deep written by Jade Davenport and published by Jonathan Ball Publishers. This book was released on 2013-12-18 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before the advent of the great mineral revolution in the latter half of the 19th century, South Africa was a sleepy colonial backwater whose unpromising landscape was seemingly devoid of any economic potential. Yet lying just beneath the dusty surface of the land lay the richest treasure trove of gold, diamonds, platinum, coal and a host of other metals and minerals that has ever been discovered in one country. It was the discovery and exploitation of first diamonds in 1870 and then gold in 1886 that proved the catalyst to the greatest mineral revolution the world has ever known, which transformed South Africa into the supreme industrialised power on the African continent. Here for the first time is the complete history of South Africa's phenomenal mineral revolution spanning a period of more than 150 years, from its earliest commercial beginnings to the present day, incorporating seven of the major commodities that have been exploited. Digging Deep describes the establishment and unparalleled growth of mining, tracing the history of the industry from its humble beginnings where copper was first mined on a commercial basis in Namaqualand in the Cape Colony in the early 1850s, to the discovery and exploitation of the country's other major mineral commodities. This is also the story of how mining gave rise to modern South Africa and how it compelled the country to develop and progress the way in which it did. It also incorporates the stories of the visionary men - Cecil Rhodes, Alfred Beit, Barney Barnato, Sir Ernest Oppenheimer, Sammy Marks and Hans Merensky - who pioneered and shaped the development of the industry on which modern South Africa was built.
Download or read book Broke and Broken written by Lucas Ledwaba and published by Blackbird Books. This book was released on 2017-04-25 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1889 a gold rush broke out on the Witwatersrand, changing South Africa's history forever. More than 130 years later the mining industry is still one of the biggest drivers of the economy, but at the expense of those who work underground. Broke & Broken is the story of the thousands of men from South Africa and beyond its borders who paid with their lives for generations. These are men who left their homes as healthy, ambitious youngsters and returned broke, broken and bitter; victims of the shameful legacy of gold mining. The book seeks to say the names of the mineworkers who have built this country's economy, because their own stories and their own spirits need to be magnified. The precious stone they spent most of their lives digging brought no shine to their lives - only pain, tears and death.
Book Synopsis The gold Fields of South Africa, comprising the history, extent, locality, and geological formation of the various gold fields, copiously illustrated by :
Download or read book The gold Fields of South Africa, comprising the history, extent, locality, and geological formation of the various gold fields, copiously illustrated written by and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 1024 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Our Precious Metal by : Wilmot Godfrey James
Download or read book Our Precious Metal written by Wilmot Godfrey James and published by New Africa Books. This book was released on 1992 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the early 1970s, the South African gold-mining industry, for decades dominated by a set of fixed and unchanging features, has undergone a transformation. Above all, it is in the area of labour relations that changes have been most rapid and profound. Faced with a crisis in traditional patterns of labour recruitment, the mines have been forced to revise their sourcing and recruiting strategies and in so doing have struck at the heart of the migrant labour system. At the same time, in an attempt to contain the crisis of control, the mines have, for the first time in a hundred years, permitted trade unions to organise among workers, and in consequence the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) has emerged as a powerful force in the industry. These processes are the subject of Wilmot James's sociological and historical study of African mine workers, which provides the first major account in twenty years of labour in South Africa's gold industry. In his lucid and original analysis, based on material much of which was not previously available to researchers, Wilmot James traces the interlocking developments which have brought about a transformation in the gold industry, and relates these to wider processes of change in contemporary South African society.
Book Synopsis South Africa's Gold Mines and the Politics of Silicosis by :
Download or read book South Africa's Gold Mines and the Politics of Silicosis written by and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: South Africa's gold mines are the largest and historically among the most profitable in the world. Yet at what human cost? This book reveals how the mining industry, abetted by a minority state, hid a pandemic of silicosis for almost a century and allowed miners infected with tuberculosis to spread disease to rural communities in South Africa and to labour-sending states. In the twentieth century, South African mines twice faced a crisis over silicosis, which put its workers at risk of contracting pulmonary tuberculosis, often fatal. The first crisis, 1896-1912, saw the mining industry invest heavily in reducing dust and South Africa became renowned for its mine safety. The second began in 2000 with mounting scientific evidence that the disease rate among miners is more than a hundred times higher than officially acknowledged. The first crisis also focused upon disease among the minority white miners: the current crisis is about black migrant workers, and is subject to major class actions for compensation. Jock McCulloch was a Legislative Research Specialist for the Australian parliament and has taught at various universities. His books include 'Asbestos Blues'. Southern Africa (South Africa, Namibia, Lesotho, Swaziland & Botswana) : Jacana.
Book Synopsis Diamonds and Gold of South Africa by : Henry Mitchell
Download or read book Diamonds and Gold of South Africa written by Henry Mitchell and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Gold Mining's Labour Markets by : South Africa. Department of Labour
Download or read book Gold Mining's Labour Markets written by South Africa. Department of Labour and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
