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Gold and Workers 1886 - 1924 by Luli Callinicos

 


Inside Front Cover

Acknowledgements

Title and Dedication - A People's History of South Africa

Contents

Epigraph - Questions of a Worker Reading History

Introduction

Part 1 - The Coming of Gold

Chapter 1 - South Africa before Industrial Times

Chapter 2 - The Gold Rush

Chapter 3 - Deep Level Mining

Chapter 4 - The Randlords

Part 2 - The Workers Their Creation and Control

Chapter 5 - How the mines got their Labour Taxation

Chapter 6 - How the mines got their Labour and The Land is Diveded Unequally

Chapter 7 - The Migrant Labour System

Chapter 8 - Labour Recruitment

Chapter 9 - How the mines got their Labour The Contract System

Chapter 10 - How the mines got their Labour The Pass Laws

Chapter 11 - The Compound System

Chapter 12 - The Wage Colour Bar - A System of Forced Labour

Part 3 - Workers' Resistance

Chapter 13 - Black Workers Boycott The Mines

Chapter 14 - The Chinese Workers

Chapter 15 - White Workers and Colour Bar

Chapter 16 - Black Workers' Resistance on the Mines

Chapter 17 - The Divided Workers

Conclusion - The Price of Progress

Footnotes

Bibliography

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  • Produced 23 May 2011
    Last Updated 18 June 2019

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