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• catalog abstract "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.".
• catalog contributor b3468771.
• catalog created "1992.".
• catalog date "1992".
• catalog date "1992.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "1992.".
• catalog description "1. Our precious metal -- 2. The research context: The Gold Mines in the 1970s and 1980s -- Part One: Organising a Labour Supply: 3. Migrant labour and inter-state relations -- 4. A buyers' market: labour recruiting in the homelands -- 5. Urban labour and mine housing -- Part Two: The ascendance of African workers: 6. When African workers became unionised -- 7. Compounds as contested institutions -- 8. The struggle over the colour bar -- 9. Conclusion: social change in a labour-repressive system.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [155]-182) and index.".
• catalog description "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.".
• catalog extent "ix, 188 p. :".
• catalog hasFormat "Our precious metal.".
• catalog identifier "0253330920 (Indiana University Press : cased)".
• catalog identifier "0852552173 (James Currey : pbk.)".
• catalog identifier "0864861656 (David Philip : pbk.)".
• catalog isFormatOf "Our precious metal.".
• catalog issued "1992".
• catalog issued "1992.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Cape Town : D. Philip ; London : J. Currey ; Bloomington : Indiana University Press,".
• catalog relation "Our precious metal.".
• catalog spatial "South Africa.".
• catalog subject "331.7/6223422/0968 20".
• catalog subject "Gold industry South Africa.".
• catalog subject "Gold miners South Africa.".
• catalog subject "HD8039.M732 S646 1992".
• catalog tableOfContents "1. Our precious metal -- 2. The research context: The Gold Mines in the 1970s and 1980s -- Part One: Organising a Labour Supply: 3. Migrant labour and inter-state relations -- 4. A buyers' market: labour recruiting in the homelands -- 5. Urban labour and mine housing -- Part Two: The ascendance of African workers: 6. When African workers became unionised -- 7. Compounds as contested institutions -- 8. The struggle over the colour bar -- 9. Conclusion: social change in a labour-repressive system.".
• catalog title "Our precious metal : African labour in South Africa's gold industry, 1970-1990 / Wilmot G. James.".
• catalog type "text".