Mining gold and manufacturing ignorance : occupational lung disease and the buying and selling of labour in Southern Africa / Jock McCulloch, Pavla Miller.

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 repu...

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Main Authors:	McCulloch, Jock, 1945- (Author), Miller, Pavla, 1950- (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan, [2023]
Subjects:	Gold mines and mining > Health aspects > South Africa. Gold miners > Diseases > South Africa. Lungs > Dust diseases > South Africa. Migrant labor > South Africa. Gold mines and mining > Health aspects Lungs > Dust diseases Migrant labor South Africa
Online Access:	Click for online access

Table of Contents:

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.

Mining gold and manufacturing ignorance : occupational lung disease and the buying and selling of labour in Southern Africa / Jock McCulloch, Pavla Miller.

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