04839nam 2200817 a 450 991081519520332120200520144314.01-283-38091-997866133809130-230-33801-110.1057/9780230338012(CKB)2670000000132200(EBL)832220(OCoLC)769138034(SSID)ssj0000571006(PQKBManifestationID)11335829(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000571006(PQKBWorkID)10611429(PQKB)10301849(DE-He213)978-0-230-33801-2(MiAaPQ)EBC832220(EXLCZ)99267000000013220020110627d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrMigration, mining, and the African diaspora Guyana in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries /Barbara P. Josiah1st ed.New York Palgrave Macmillan20111 online resource (295 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-349-29701-1 0-230-11589-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Preface; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 African Diaspora Migrant Miners and Guyana's El Dorado; 2 Migration and Mining Strategies in a Colonial Society; 3 Mining Factors in a Diversified Economy; 4 The Perils of Labor in Mining: Migration and Mortality; 5 Aspects of Infrastructure Development: Gold and Diamonds; 6 Another Approach: Organizing Bauxite Production; 7 Evolving Relations: Mining and Trade Unionism8 Internal Migration and Village Dynamics: Families and Communities Coping9 Knowledge Transfer and Cooperativism: Agriculture and Mining Eras; 10 African Continuities, Jewels, and Economic Linkages to Mining; Conclusion; Appendix A; Appendix B; Appendix C; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index"From the late 1800s, African workers migrated to the mineral-rich hinterland areas of Guyana, mined gold, diamonds, and bauxite; diversified the country's economy; and contributed to national development. Utilizing real estate, financial, and death records, as well as oral accounts of the labor migrants along with colonial officials and mining companies' information stored in National Archives in Guyana, Great Britain, and the U.S and the Library of Congress, the study situates miners into the historical structure of the country's economic development. It analyzes the workers attraction to mining from agriculture, their concepts of "order and progress", and how they shaped their lives in positive ways rather than becoming mere victims of colonialism. In this contentious plantation society plagued by adversarial relations between the economic elites and the laboring class, in addition to producing the strategically important bauxite for the aviation era of World Wars I&II, for almost a century the workers braved the ecologically hostile and sometimes deadly environments of the gold and diamond fields in the quest for El Dorado in Guyana"--Provided by publisher.Mineral industriesSocial aspectsGuyanaHistoryMineral industriesEconomic aspectsGuyanaHistoryMineral industriesEnvironmental aspectsGuyanaHistoryMines and mineral resourcesGuyanaHistoryMinersGuyanaEconomic conditions19th centuryMinersGuyanaEconomic conditions20th centuryMinersGuyanaSocial conditions19th centuryMinersGuyanaSocial conditions20th centuryMigrant laborGuyanaHistoryAfrican diasporaGuyanaEconomic conditionsGuyanaSocial conditionsMineral industriesSocial aspectsHistory.Mineral industriesEconomic aspectsHistory.Mineral industriesEnvironmental aspectsHistory.Mines and mineral resourcesHistory.MinersEconomic conditionsMinersEconomic conditionsMinersSocial conditionsMinersSocial conditionsMigrant laborHistory.African diaspora.331.6/26609881HIS033000HIS037060HIS037070HIS001000POL023000HIS054000bisacshJosiah Barbara P1755130MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910815195203321Migration, mining, and the African diaspora4191787UNINA