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Title:Class Struggle and Migrant Labour in South African Gold Mines
Author:Massey, David
Year:1983
Periodical:Canadian Journal of African Studies
Volume:17
Issue:3
Pages:429-448
Language:English
Geographic term:South Africa
Subjects:class struggle
labour migration
gold mining
Urbanization and Migration
Labor and Employment
Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups)
Ethnic and Race Relations
Economics and Trade
External link:https://www.jstor.org/stable/484926
Abstract:For nearly a century the British and Portuguese authorities collaborated with South Africa in supplying that country with a reserve of migrant workers to be drawn on in periods of economic expansion and discarded in times of recession. In the 1970s, however, events in the mining industry indicated that these foreign supplies were no longer reliable and that the workers themselves had grown more militant. In response the South Africans cut back on foreign labor from those countries judged to be unreliable or politically suspect. To do this they had to raise wages and make some minimal improvements in working conditions in the mines. While this may have solved the problem of dealing with foreign governments, it has not guaranteed a less militant work force. The prognosis is for continued unrest and harsher and more violent forms of repression. Fig., notes, sum. in French, tab.
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