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Going for Gold, Volume 51: Men, Mines, and Migration

by T. Dunbar Moodie
Going for Gold, Volume 51: Men, Mines, and Migration

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ISBN13: 9780520086449
ISBN10: 0520086449
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This book tells the story of the lives of migrant black African men who work on the South African gold mines, told from their own point of view and, as much as possible, in their own words. Dunbar Moodie examines the operation of local power structures and resistances, changes in production techniques, the limits and successes of unionization, and the nature of ethnic conflicts at different periods and on different terrains of struggle. He treats his subject thematically and historically, examining how notions of integrity, manhood, sexuality, work, power, solidarity, and violence have all changed over time, especially with the shift to a proletarianized work force on the mines in the 1970s. Moodie integrates analyses of individual life-strategies with theories of social change, illuminating the ways in which these play off each other in historically significant ways. He shows how human beings (in this case, African men) build integrity and construct their own social order, even in situations of apparent total repression.

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"An indispensable look at the working conditions, social lives, and collective action of black miners. . . . [Moodie's] meticulous, reflective, incessantly questioning approach to power, drink, sexuality, conflict, and routine life in mines and compounds reveals an extraordinary world at the edge of hope and desperation."—Charles Tilly, The New School for Social Research

"Combines a rigorous use of theory with a marvellous and sensitive sympathy."—Terence O. Ranger, co-editor of The Invention of Tradition


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Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-324) and index.

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T. Dunbar Moodie is Professor of Sociology at Hobart and William Smith Colleges and the author of The Rise of Afrikanerdom (California, 1975). Vivienne Ndatshe is a former teacher who now works as a domestic servant. She grew up in Pondoland, where her father was a migrant gold miner. Her interviews with mine workers and their families added an essential dimension to this work.

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ISBN:
9780520086449
Binding:
Trade Paperback
Publication date:
09/27/1994
Publisher:
University of California Press
Series info:
Perspectives on Southern Africa
Language:
English
Pages:
372
Height:
.80IN
Width:
5.97IN
Thickness:
.80 in.
LCCN:
93038187
Series:
Perspectives on Southern Africa
Series Number:
51
Number of Units:
1
Illustration:
Yes
Copyright Year:
1994
Series Volume:
1538-D51
UPC Code:
2800520086441
Author:
T Dunbar Moodie
Oth:
Vivienne Ndatshe
Author:
T. Dunbar Moodie
Subject:
Blacks -- South Africa -- Social conditions.
Subject:
World History-Africa
Subject:
Sociology
Subject:
Gold miners -- South Africa.
Subject:
Gold miners -- South Africa -- Social conditions.
Subject:
Gold miners
Subject:
Blacks

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