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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.
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