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This open access book charts how South Africa’s gold mines have systematically suppressed evidence of hazardous work practices and the risks associated with mining. For most of the twentieth century, South Africa was the world’s largest producer of gold. Although the country enjoyed a reputation for leading the world in occupational health legislation, the mining companies developed a system of medical surveillance and workers’ compensation which compromised the health of black gold miners, facilitated the spread of tuberculosis, and ravaged the communities and economies of labour-sending states. The culmination of two decades of meticulous archival research, this book exposes the making, contesting, and unravelling of the companies’ capacity to shape – and corrupt – medical knowledge.

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Author:   Jock McCulloch ,  Pavla Miller
Publisher:   Springer Verlag, Singapore
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2023
Weight:   0.744kg
ISBN:  

9789811983269

ISBN 10:   9811983267
Pages:   459
Publication Date:   21 March 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: A most modern industry: the migrant labour system and crisis management: 1880 -2022 Chapter 3: Mapping and resolving a health crisis: 1902 -1929 Chapter 4: Identifying risk and compensating tuberculosis: 1916 - 1957 Chapter 5: Lifting the ban on the recruitment of Tropical labour: 1933-1945 Chapter 6: The research community, risk and evidence: 1912 - 1932 Chapter 7: Tuberculosis, malnutrition and mining in South Africa: 1903 - 1960 Chapter 8: Tuberculosis and migrant labour in the High Commission Territories:       Bechuanaland: 1985-1998 Chapter 9: Tuberculosis and migrant labour in the High Commission Territories: Basutoland and Swaziland: 1912-2005 Chapter 10: Contests over labour in British central African colonies: 1935 - 1953 Chapter 11: Dissenting voices: 1902 -1956 Chapter 12: The career of A. J. Orenstein: 1914 - -1960 Chapter 13: Technologies, care and repatriations: 1926-1966 Chapter 14: Things fall apart: independent research, asbestos litigation, and the gold miners’ class action: 1983 - 2019 Chapter 15: Conclusion: records, bodies and contested justice 

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Jock McCulloch (1945 - 2018) was one of the foremost historians of occupational health of his generation. He also wrote on colonization, race relations, and psychiatry. Jock was Emeritus Professor of History at RMIT University (Australia), and fellow of both the Australian Academy of the Social Sciences and the Academy of the Humanities.  Pavla Miller is Emeritus Professor of Historical Sociology at RMIT University (Australia). She wrote Long Division: State Schooling in South Australian Society; Transformations of Patriarchy in the West; and Patriarchy. An interdisciplinary scholar, she also published on explanations of low fertility, masters and servants’ legislation, children’s work, and the Australian National Disability Insurance Scheme.

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