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Three Wise Monkeys
Charles van Onselen
其他書名
The Quest for Wealth Without Work
出版Jonathan Ball Publishers, 2023-03-23
主題History / GeneralHistory / Africa / General
ISBN17761924949781776192496
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=ANy8EAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋The Three Wise Monkeys trilogy culminates with a forensic examination of South Africa's long struggle to suppress gambling, and especially lotteries. The opposition of the Calvinist churches – both Afrikaans and English-speaking – had its counterpart in the eager embrace of games of chance by the white working class on the Witwatersrand. Focusing on the career of Rufe Naylor, an Australian bookmaker, horse dealer and entrepreneur who, with the help of a defrocked Portuguese Catholic priest, ran the Lourenço Marques Lottery, The Quest for Wealth without Work shows how the efforts of church and state to control the leisure time and morals of the working class intersected with the need to ensure the flow of cheap mine labour from Mozambique. Ultimately, in the suppression of the Lourenço Marques Lottery – and in campaigns against pinball machines, dog racing and other 'social evils' – can be seen the emerging outlines of the apartheid police state.