Mediators, Contract Men, and Colonial Capital - Mechanized Gold Mining in the Gold Coast Colony, 1879-1909

An innovative study of labor relations, particularly the interactions of recruitment agents and migrant workers, in the mining concessions of Wassa, Gold Coast Colony, 1879 to 1909.

List of contents

Introduction
Prospectors, Politicians and the Question of "Progress": The First and Second Gold Boom in Wassa
Labor Recruitment in the Nineteenth Century: The Place of Practicality
Disrupted Recruitment at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: Women, Whites, and other Labor Agents
Government Strategies for Assisting the Mines
Labor Agents, Chiefs and Officials, 1905 to 1909: The Incorporation of the Northern Territories' Labor Reserve
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Cassandra Mark-Thiesen

Summary

An innovative study of labor relations, particularly the interactions of recruitment agents and migrant workers, in the mining concessions of Wassa, Gold Coast Colony, 1879 to 1909.

Product details

• Authors: Cassandra Mark-Thiesen
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2018
• EAN: 9781580469180
• ISBN: 978-1-58046-918-0
• No. of pages: 230
• Weight: 500 g
• Illustrations: 3 b/w, 4 line illus.
• Series: Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora; Rochester Studies in African H; Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora; Rochester Studies in African H
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches