Class struggle and migrant labor in South African gold mines.

D. Massey

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Abstract

Analyzes changes in the origins and characteristics of migrant workers from the late 19th century to the present. Explains the political and economic advantages to the government and the mines of using migrant labour on short-term contracts and its relationship with apartheid, the decreasing reliance on labour from neighbouring countries during the 1970s owing to political changes in these countries, and the increasing organization and militancy of local labour, leading in turn to increasing organization and militancy of local labour, resulting in increasingly repressive action by the govern-and the mining companies. One of 5 articles on South Africa in this issue. -D.Conyers (CDS)English

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)429-448
Number of pages20
JournalCanadian Journal of African Studies
Volume17
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - 1983

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Demography
  • Cultural Studies
  • Development
  • History
  • Anthropology
  • Sociology and Political Science

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