Going for gold
Subtitle: men, mines, and migration
By: T. Dunbar Moodie with Vivienne Ndatshe.
Contributors: Ndatshe, Vivienne.
Series: Perspectives on Southern Africa ;; 51
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 337
Subjects: Gold miners -- South Africa -- Social conditions; Blacks -- South Africa -- Social conditions
Description: "This book investigates the lives of migrant black African men who work on the South African gold mines, from their own point of view and, as much as possible, in their own words. Dunbar Moodie examines the operation of local power structures and resistance, changes in production techniques, the limits and successes of unionization, and the nature of ethnic conflicts in different periods and on different terrains of struggle"--Back cover
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-324) and index.