Norman Levy

The Foundations of the South African Cheap Labour System (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Originally published in 1982, this was the first in-depth study of the labour system of the South African gold mining industry during the crucial years 1886 to 1906. It provided an insight into the early period but was relevant for much longer, as many of the policies decided upon in the formative years of the industry persisted. The book traces the growth of deep-level mining and covers the conflicts between miners and mine-owners . It discusses the effects on the gold mining industry of the Anglo-Boer War, and the role of the mine-owners in that conflict. It also examines the role of Chinese labour as a strategy in the defence of the labour structure and finally discusses the origins of the racially discriminatory legislation which characterized the Apartheid system.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 386
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000642483
• Artikelnr.: 65002806

Autorenporträt

Norman Levy was Head of History at the former Middlesex Polytechnic, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: The Foundations 1. Calculating the Wage Rate 2. The Black Labour
Supply: Early Recruitment and Regulation 3. The Wage Bill: The Agreement of
1890 4. Quasi-official Control: The State and the Chamber of Mines 5. The
East Coast Labour Supply: An Alternative Labour Supply 6. Pass Regulations
and the Control of Mobility 7. The Formation of a Central Recruiting
Organization 8. Manipulating The Wage Rate Part 2: The Randlords'
'Revolution from Above' 9. The Needs of Deep-Level Mining: The Gold
Industry and the State 10. The Transition from Boer to British
Administration: The Impact of State Intervention Part 3: The Defence of the
Labour Structure (1902-6) 11. The Post-War Labour Market 12. The First
Defence of the Labour Structure: The Transvaal Labour Commission and the
Unskilled Labour Supply 13. The Asian Labour Alternative 14. Racist
Legislation and the Introduction of Chinese Labour 15. The Restoration of
the Labour Supply.