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Migration, mining, and the African diaspora : Guyana in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / / Barbara P. Josiah



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Autore: Josiah Barbara P Visualizza persona
Titolo: Migration, mining, and the African diaspora : Guyana in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / / Barbara P. Josiah Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (295 p.)
Disciplina: 331.6/26609881
Soggetto topico: Mineral industries - Social aspects - Guyana - History
Mineral industries - Economic aspects - Guyana - History
Mineral industries - Environmental aspects - Guyana - History
Mines and mineral resources - Guyana - History
Miners - Guyana - Economic conditions - 19th century
Miners - Guyana - Economic conditions - 20th century
Miners - Guyana - Social conditions - 19th century
Miners - Guyana - Social conditions - 20th century
Migrant labor - Guyana - History
African diaspora
Soggetto geografico: Guyana Economic conditions
Guyana Social conditions
Classificazione: HIS033000HIS037060HIS037070HIS001000POL023000HIS054000
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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 Unionism
8 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
Sommario/riassunto: "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"--
Titolo autorizzato: Migration, mining, and the African diaspora  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-283-38091-9
9786613380913
0-230-33801-1
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910815195203321
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