Rank-and-file protest at the Ashanti Goldfields Corporation, Ghana, 1970-1972

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Title:	Rank-and-file protest at the Ashanti Goldfields Corporation, Ghana, 1970-1972
Author:	Crisp, Jeff
Year:	1981
Periodical:	Labour, Capital and Society
Volume:	14
Issue:	2
Pages:	48-62
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Ghana
Subjects:	strikes 1970 gold mining
Abstract:	The period 1968 to 1970 witnessed some of the most dramatic confrontations between workers, managers and government officials in the long history of the Ghanian gold raining industry. In those three, years, the mine workers participated in at least 14 unofficial strikes, many of which were accompanied by riots, violent clashes with armed police, and physical assaults on managers, supervisory personnel, and trade union officials. The present paper describes the longest yet least published stoppage of the period, the Ashanti Goldfields strike of June 1970, and examines the impact of that strike on the pattern of labour protest at: the mine in the following two, years. Sections: Introduction - Ultimatum to strike - Defeat of the strike and victimization of its leaders - Historical background to the defeat - Consequences of the strike. Notes, French sum.