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Migrant Labour in South Africa's Mining Economy
Alan Jeeves
其他書名
The Struggle for the Gold Mines' Labour Supply, 1890-1920
出版
McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
, 1985
主題
Business & Economics / Labor / General
History / Africa / General
Political Science / Labor & Industrial Relations
Social Science / Sociology / General
Social Science / Regional Studies
Social Science / Black Studies (Global)
Technology & Engineering / Mining
ISBN
0773504206
9780773504202
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=fIKITLdVVG4C&hl=&source=gbs_api
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This book is a study of the origins of migratory labour and racial discrimination in South Africa's premier industry, the gold mines of the Witwatersrand. Based upon government records and private business archives, it examines the highly competitive world of mine labour recruiting at the turn of the century and concludes that this regimented labour system was the product not only of the mining companies but also of political pressures and economic needs in South African society. The systerm was remarkable for the hardship it imposed, for the size of the labour force recruited - more than 200,000 low-wage black labourers were delivered annually to the industry's grim, barrack-like compounds - and for the fact that most of the workers were African pastoralists without previous industrial experience. Forced to work in appalling conditions amid much squalor and disease, more than 50,000 miners died on the Witwatersrand in a single decade.