Migrant labour in South Africa's mining economy : the struggle for the gold mines' labour supply, 1890-1920 / Alan H. Jeeves.

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Jeeves, Alan [Author]

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9780773560925

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Migrant labor in South Africa's mining economy

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HD8039 .M547 1985

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Contents:

2. Toward a Racial Division of Labour on the Witwatersrand -- 3. The Making of a Labour Pool: Recruiting in the Eastern Cape -- 4. The Native Recruiting Corporation and Its Rivals -- 5. The Recruiting Nexus: Touts, Headmen, and Their Recruits -- 6. The WNLA'S Mozambique Connection -- 7. Tropical Recruiting and the Bid for the Labour of the Hinterland -- Conclusion -- Appendixes: 1. Average Number of Africans Employed on Mines and Works, Transvaal, 1903-20 -- 2. Mineworkers Received, 1902-20 -- 3. "Voluntary" Labour on Transvaal Gold Mines, 1905-20 -- 4. Territorial Analysis of Desertion, 1909-20.

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Subject: "In tracing the development of the recruiting system, Alan Jeeves shows how a large proportion of the labour supply came to be controlled by private labour companies and recruiting agents, who aimed both to exploit the workers and to extract heavy fees from the employing companies. The gold indusry struggled for years against the internal divisions which created the competition for labour, until at last the Chamber of Mines, with the support of the state, succeeded in driving out the private recruiters and centralizing the system under its control. This study of the interests involved in the struggle for control of the black labour supply reveals much about the forces which created and now entrench racial domination in South African's industrial economy."--Publisher's description

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1. Mining Capital and the State under Kruger and Milner -- 2. Toward a Racial Division of Labour on the Witwatersrand -- 3. The Making of a Labour Pool: Recruiting in the Eastern Cape -- 4. The Native Recruiting Corporation and Its Rivals -- 5. The Recruiting Nexus: Touts, Headmen, and Their Recruits -- 6. The WNLA'S Mozambique Connection -- 7. Tropical Recruiting and the Bid for the Labour of the Hinterland -- Conclusion -- Appendixes: 1. Average Number of Africans Employed on Mines and Works, Transvaal, 1903-20 -- 2. Mineworkers Received, 1902-20 -- 3. "Voluntary" Labour on Transvaal Gold Mines, 1905-20 -- 4. Territorial Analysis of Desertion, 1909-20.

"In tracing the development of the recruiting system, Alan Jeeves shows how a large proportion of the labour supply came to be controlled by private labour companies and recruiting agents, who aimed both to exploit the workers and to extract heavy fees from the employing companies. The gold indusry struggled for years against the internal divisions which created the competition for labour, until at last the Chamber of Mines, with the support of the state, succeeded in driving out the private recruiters and centralizing the system under its control. This study of the interests involved in the struggle for control of the black labour supply reveals much about the forces which created and now entrench racial domination in South African's industrial economy."--Publisher's description

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