Capital and labour on the Kimberley diamond fields, 1871-1890

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Title:	Capital and labour on the Kimberley diamond fields, 1871-1890
Author:	Turrell, Robert Vicat
Year:	1987
Issue:	54
Pages:	297
Language:	English
Series:	African studies series (ISSN 0065-406X)
City of publisher:	Cambridge
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
ISBN:	0521333547
Geographic term:	South Africa
Subjects:	miners economic history diamond mining
Abstract:	History of diamond mining in Kimberley, South Africa (1871-1890). The struggles over the introduction of the compound system determine the shape of the book. These struggles were based on the conditions under which black and white workers were incorporated into the mining industry as wage labourers, the various forms of contract and subcontract that emerged under partnership, company and joint-stock company ownership in the mines, and the political conditions that enabled or obstructed the concentration and centralization of capital in Kimberley. There are chapters on dramatic points of conflict - the Black Flag revolt, the strikes of 1883 and 1884, the clash between town and mine over illicit diamond buying - and two chapters pay special attention to mining finance.