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dc.contributor.authorMcCulloch, Jock
dc.contributor.authorMiller, Pavla
dc.date.accessioned2023-04-18T09:33:27Z
dc.date.available2023-04-18T09:33:27Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.date.submitted2023-04-13T14:05:24Z
dc.identifierONIX_20230413_9789811983276_53
dc.identifierhttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/62441
dc.identifier.urihttps://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/99065
dc.description.abstractThis 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.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.rightsopen access
dc.subject.otherGoldmining
dc.subject.otherOccupational lung disease
dc.subject.otherSilicosis
dc.subject.otherTuberculosis
dc.subject.otherSouthern Africa
dc.subject.otherOccupational injury
dc.subject.otherAfrican studies
dc.subject.otherColonialism
dc.subject.otherRacism
dc.subject.otherHistory of mining
dc.subject.otherEpidemiology
dc.subject.otherthema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MK Medical specialties, branches of medicine::MKV Environmental medicine::MKVP Occupational medicine
dc.subject.otherthema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBN Public health and preventive medicine
dc.subject.otherthema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PD Science: general issues::PDX History of science
dc.subject.otherthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHH African history
dc.subject.otherthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTQ Colonialism and imperialism
dc.titleMining Gold and Manufacturing Ignorance
dc.title.alternativeOccupational Lung Disease and the Buying and Selling of Labour in Southern Africa
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.1007/978-981-19-8327-6
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy9fa3421d-f917-4153-b9ab-fc337c396b5a
oapen.relation.isFundedByRMIT University
oapen.relation.isFundedBy29f6d3c7-230a-49b8-8b09-6ccece134b60
oapen.relation.isbn9789811983276
oapen.relation.isbn9789811983269
oapen.imprintPalgrave Macmillan
oapen.pages459
oapen.place.publicationSingapore
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dc.relationisFundedBy29f6d3c7-230a-49b8-8b09-6ccece134b60


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