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African Labour in South Africa's Gold Industry, 1970-1990

By: Wilmot Godfrey James

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African Labour in South Africa's Gold Industry, 1970-1990

By: Wilmot Godfrey James

Since the early 1970s, the South African gold-mining industry, for decades dominated by a set of fixed and unchanging features, has undergone a transformation. Above all, it is in the area of labour relations that changes have been most rapid and profound. Faced with a crisis in traditional patterns of labour recruitment, the mines have been forced to revise their sourcing and recruiting strategies and in so doing have struck at the heart of the migrant labour system. At the same time, in an attempt to contain the crisis of control, the mines have, for the first time in a hundred years, permitted trade unions to organise among workers, and in consequence the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) has emerged as a powerful force in the industry. These processes are the subject of Wilmot James's sociological and historical study of African mine workers, which provides the first major account in twenty years of labour in South Africa's gold industry. In his lucid and original analysis, based on material much of which was not previously available to researchers, Wilmot James traces the interlocking developments which have brought about a transformation in the gold industry, and relates these to wider processes of change in contemporary South African society.

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New Africa Books

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0864861656

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9780864861658

Africa in the Age of Biology

By: Wilmot Godfrey James

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Africa in the Age of Biology

By: Wilmot Godfrey James

This paper was presented as the first annual John Gerhart Memorial Lecture at the conference of the Africa Genome Initiative held in Cairo in March 2004. In Africa in the Age of Biology, Dr James discusses Africa's long history of scientific, technological and mathematical enterprise, from tokens of the very earliest counting by humans to the sum of knowledge brought to bear in the construction of the pyramids. But he focuses on the challenges of today, and tomorrow, which he suggests Africa's leaders and scholars dare not overlook. Dr James argues that Africa stands challenged to act on its own initiative to focus investment beyond the scale of NEPAD's initiatives, provide political leadership and direct scholarly attention on making the most of genetic developments for the benefit of its populations.

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HSRC Press

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0796920737

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9780796920737

English Painters. With a Chapter on American Painters

By: Harry John Wilmot-Buxton,Sylvester Rosa Koehler

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English Painters. With a Chapter on American Painters

By: Harry John Wilmot-Buxton,Sylvester Rosa Koehler

Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

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250

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3385345367

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9783385345362

The Complete Poems of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester

By: John Wilmot Earl of Rochester

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The Complete Poems of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester

By: John Wilmot Earl of Rochester

John Wilmot, the notorious Earl of Rochester, was the darling of the polished, profligate court of Charles II. One of the finest poets of the Restoration, patron to important playwrights, model for countless witty young rakes in Restoration comedies, he lived a full but short life, dying in 1680 (with a dramatic deathbed renunciation of his atheism) at the age of thirty-three. This edition of Rochester's poetry, brilliantly annotated and introduced by David M. Vieth, has been a classic work for decades. Rochester had many admirers: Graham Greene wrote Lord Rochester's Monkey; Daniel Defoe quoted him often; Tennyson recited his poems; Voltaire admired his satire for 'energy and fire'; Goethe could quote him in English; and Hazlitt said that 'his verses cut and sparkle like diamonds' and that 'his contempt for everything that others respect almost amounts to sublimity'. Book jacket.

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Yale University Press

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0300097131

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9780300097139

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Africa in the Age of Biology

Africa in the Age of Biology

English Painters. With a Chapter on American Painters

English Painters. With a Chapter on American Painters

The Complete Poems of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester

The Complete Poems of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester

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