LEADER 04839nam 2200817 a 450 001 9910815195203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-38091-9 010 $a9786613380913 010 $a0-230-33801-1 024 7 $a10.1057/9780230338012 035 $a(CKB)2670000000132200 035 $a(EBL)832220 035 $a(OCoLC)769138034 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000571006 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11335829 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000571006 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10611429 035 $a(PQKB)10301849 035 $a(DE-He213)978-0-230-33801-2 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC832220 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000132200 100 $a20110627d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMigration, mining, and the African diaspora $eGuyana in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries /$fBarbara P. Josiah 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew York $cPalgrave Macmillan$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (295 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-349-29701-1 311 $a0-230-11589-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; 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 Unionism 327 $a8 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 330 $a"From the late 1800s, African workers migrated to the mineral-rich hinterland areas of Guyana, mined gold, diamonds, and bauxite; diversified the country's economy; and contributed to national development. Utilizing real estate, financial, and death records, as well as oral accounts of the labor migrants along with colonial officials and mining companies' information stored in National Archives in Guyana, Great Britain, and the U.S and the Library of Congress, the study situates miners into the historical structure of the country's economic development. It analyzes the workers attraction to mining from agriculture, their concepts of "order and progress", and how they shaped their lives in positive ways rather than becoming mere victims of colonialism. In this contentious plantation society plagued by adversarial relations between the economic elites and the laboring class, in addition to producing the strategically important bauxite for the aviation era of World Wars I&II, for almost a century the workers braved the ecologically hostile and sometimes deadly environments of the gold and diamond fields in the quest for El Dorado in Guyana"--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aMineral industries$xSocial aspects$zGuyana$xHistory 606 $aMineral industries$xEconomic aspects$zGuyana$xHistory 606 $aMineral industries$xEnvironmental aspects$zGuyana$xHistory 606 $aMines and mineral resources$zGuyana$xHistory 606 $aMiners$zGuyana$xEconomic conditions$y19th century 606 $aMiners$zGuyana$xEconomic conditions$y20th century 606 $aMiners$zGuyana$xSocial conditions$y19th century 606 $aMiners$zGuyana$xSocial conditions$y20th century 606 $aMigrant labor$zGuyana$xHistory 606 $aAfrican diaspora 607 $aGuyana$xEconomic conditions 607 $aGuyana$xSocial conditions 615 0$aMineral industries$xSocial aspects$xHistory. 615 0$aMineral industries$xEconomic aspects$xHistory. 615 0$aMineral industries$xEnvironmental aspects$xHistory. 615 0$aMines and mineral resources$xHistory. 615 0$aMiners$xEconomic conditions 615 0$aMiners$xEconomic conditions 615 0$aMiners$xSocial conditions 615 0$aMiners$xSocial conditions 615 0$aMigrant labor$xHistory. 615 0$aAfrican diaspora. 676 $a331.6/26609881 686 $aHIS033000$aHIS037060$aHIS037070$aHIS001000$aPOL023000$aHIS054000$2bisacsh 700 $aJosiah$b Barbara P$01755130 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910815195203321 996 $aMigration, mining, and the African diaspora$94191787 997 $aUNINA