Mining gold and manufacturing ignorance occupational lung disease and the buying and selling of labour in Southern Africa
This open access book charts how South Africa’s gold mines have systematically suppressed evidence of hazardous work practices and the risks associated with mining. For most of the twentieth century, South Africa was the world’s largest producer of gold. Although the country enjoyed a reputation for...
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Singapore :
Springer Nature Singapore
2023.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2023. |
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009741124506719 |
Table of Contents:
- Chapter 1: Introduction.
- Chapter 2: A most modern industry: the migrant labour system and crisis management: 1880 -2022
- Chapter 3: Mapping and resolving a health crisis: 1902 -1929
- Chapter 4: Identifying risk and compensating tuberculosis: 1916 - 1957
- Chapter 5: Lifting the ban on the recruitment of Tropical labour: 1933-1945
- Chapter 6: The research community, risk and evidence: 1912 - 1932
- Chapter 7: Tuberculosis, malnutrition and mining in South Africa: 1903 - 1960,- Chapter 8: Tuberculosis and migrant labour in the High Commission Territories: Bechuanaland: 1985-1998
- Chapter 9: Tuberculosis and migrant labour in the High Commission Territories: Basutoland and Swaziland: 1912-2005
- Chapter 10: Contests over labour in British central African colonies: 1935 - 1953
- Chapter 11: Dissenting voices: 1902 -1956
- Chapter 12: The career of A. J. Orenstein: 1914 - -1960
- Chapter 13: Technologies, care and repatriations: 1926-1966
- Chapter 14: Things fall apart: independent research, asbestos litigation, and the gold miners’ class action: 1983 - 2019
- Chapter 15: Conclusion: records, bodies and contested justice.
