Mining gold and manufacturing ignorance : occupational lung disease and the buying and selling of labour in Southern Africa / Jock McCulloch, Pavla Miller.
McCulloch, Jock, 1945- author.; Miller, Pavla, 1950- author.
2023
RC965.M54
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Title Mining gold and manufacturing ignorance : occupational lung disease and the buying and selling of labour in Southern Africa / Jock McCulloch, Pavla Miller.
Author McCulloch, Jock, 1945- author.
ISBN 9789811983276 (electronic bk.)
9811983275 (electronic bk.)
9789811983269
9811983267
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-8327-6
Published Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xiii, 459 pages)
Item Number 10.1007/978-981-19-8327-6 doi
Call Number RC965.M54
Dewey Decimal Classification 338.27410968
Summary This open access book charts how South Africa's gold mines have systematically suppressed evidence of hazardous work practices and the risks associated with mining. For most of the twentieth century, South Africa was the world’s largest producer of gold. Although the country enjoyed a reputation for leading the world in occupational health legislation, the mining companies developed a system of medical surveillance and workers' compensation which compromised the health of black gold miners, facilitated the spread of tuberculosis, and ravaged the communities and economies of labour-sending states. The culmination of two decades of meticulous archival research, this book exposes the making, contesting, and unravelling of the companies’ capacity to shape -- and corrupt -- medical knowledge.
Note Includes index.
Access Note Open access.
Source of Description Description based on print version record.
Added Author Miller, Pavla, 1950- author.
Available in Other Form MINING GOLD AND MANUFACTURING IGNORANCE.
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Chapter 1: Introduction.
Chapter 2: A most modern industry: the migrant labour system and crisis management: 1880 -2022
Chapter 3: Mapping and resolving a health crisis: 1902 -1929
Chapter 4: Identifying risk and compensating tuberculosis: 1916 - 1957
Chapter 5: Lifting the ban on the recruitment of Tropical labour: 1933-1945
Chapter 6: The research community, risk and evidence: 1912 - 1932
Chapter 7: Tuberculosis, malnutrition and mining in South Africa: 1903 - 1960,- Chapter 8: Tuberculosis and migrant labour in the High Commission Territories: Bechuanaland: 1985-1998
Chapter 9: Tuberculosis and migrant labour in the High Commission Territories: Basutoland and Swaziland: 1912-2005
Chapter 10: Contests over labour in British central African colonies: 1935 - 1953
Chapter 11: Dissenting voices: 1902 -1956
Chapter 12: The career of A. J. Orenstein: 1914 - -1960
Chapter 13: Technologies, care and repatriations: 1926-1966
Chapter 14: Things fall apart: independent research, asbestos litigation, and the gold miners' class action: 1983 - 2019
Chapter 15: Conclusion: records, bodies and contested justice.

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