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Title: | Mining Capital, the State and Unskilled White Workers in South Africa, 1901-1913 |
Author: | Davies, Robert H. |
Year: | 1976 |
Periodical: | Journal of Southern African Studies |
Volume: | 3 |
Issue: | 1 |
Period: | October |
Pages: | 41-69 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | South Africa |
Subjects: | racism miners employment Economics and Trade Development and Technology Labor and Employment Politics and Government History and Exploration |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/2636317 |
Abstract: | It is argued in the literature that white proletarians with their 'aristocratic' pretensions either totally refused to perform unskilled work, or, if willing, 'demand too much'. This article supports the view that the policy of non-employment of whites in general unskilled work, and thence the racial division of labour, its entrenchment in law, and indeed the imposition of segregation within the work process itself, were a direct product of the pursuit of profit by mining capital. Notes, tables. |