South Africa's Gold Mines and the Politics of Silicosis

Examines the silicosis crisis in the South African mining industry, and reveals how the rate of, often fatal, tuberculosis among black migrant miners was hidden for over a century.

List of contents

A Brief Chronology - Preface: South Africa in the twentieth dentury
Gold-mining and life-threatening disease
Creating a medical system
Compensation
A White science
Myth-making and the 1930 silicosis conference
Tropical labour and tuberculosis
Conflict over the compensation system
Healing miners
The sick shall work
Men without qualities

About the author

Jock McCulloch

Summary

Examines the silicosis crisis in the South African mining industry, and reveals how the rate of, often fatal, tuberculosis among black migrant miners was hidden for over a century.

Product details

• Authors: Jock Mcculloch, Jock Mcculloch
• Publisher: James Currey
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.10.2012
• EAN: 9781847010599
• ISBN: 978-1-84701-059-9
• No. of pages: 202
• Weight: 310 g
• Illustrations: 2 b/w illus.
• Series: African Issues; African Issues (Paperback)
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Labour, economic and industrial sociology