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McCulloch Jock <1945-> |
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Mining gold and manufacturing ignorance : occupational lung disease and the buying and selling of labour in Southern Africa / / Jock McCulloch, Pavla Miller |
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Singapore : , : Springer Nature Singapore : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2023 |
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[1st ed. 2023.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xiii, 459 pages) |
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Disciplina |
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Gold miners - Diseases - South Africa |
Gold mines and mining - Health aspects - South Africa |
Lungs - Dust diseases - South Africa |
Migrant labor - South Africa |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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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. |
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This open access book charts how South Africa’s gold mines have systematically suppressed evidence of hazardous work practices and |
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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 leading the world in occupational health legislation, the mining companies developed a system of medical surveillance and workers’ compensation which compromised the health of black gold miners, facilitated the spread of tuberculosis, and ravaged the communities and economies of labour-sending states. The culmination of two decades of meticulous archival research, this book exposes the making, contesting, and unravelling of the companies’ capacity to shape – and corrupt – medical knowledge. |
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