Capital and Labour on the Kimberley Diamond Fields, 1871-1890

List of contents

List of plates; List of figures; List of maps; List of tables; List of appendix tables; Preface; List of abbreviations; 1. Diamond mining: an overview; 2. African labour in the early days; 3. The new colonial state, 1873-75; 4. The Black Flag Revolt: an analysis; 5. Company mining; 6. The 'share mania'; 7. The depression and strikes of 1883 and 1884; 8. The closed compound system; 9. Illicit diamond buying and the town economy; 10. Amalgamation; Appendix tables; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Summary

This academic history of diamond mining in Kimberley is a major study of the beginning of South Africa's mineral revolution. It includes an analysis of the formation of De Beers Consolidated Mines, one of the most successful companies ever to have been established in Africa.

Product details

• Authors: Turrell Robert Vicat, Robert Vicat Turrell
• Assisted by: David Anderson (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.09.1987
• EAN: 9780521333542
• ISBN: 978-0-521-33354-2
• No. of pages: 316
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Historica
• Subjects: Guides > Law, job, finance > Training, job, career; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries