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Over-Reach: The South African Gold Mines and the Struggle for the Labour of Zambesia, 1890–1920
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The authors examine the efforts of l'industrie miniere sud-africaine pour s'ouvrir de nouvelles zones de recrutement dans les territoires densement peuples au nord des frontieres de l'Union.Abstract:
RESUMEL'article examine les efforts de l'industrie miniere sud-africaine pour s'ouvrir de nouvelles zones de recrutement dans les territoires densement peuples au nord des frontieres de l'Union. Sitot apres la guerre anglo-boer, la main-d'oeuvre “tropicale” s'avera une source du travail a bon marche mais les methodes de recrutement et la tres forte mortalite provoquerent une serie de scandales. En 1913, l'Etat due intervenir pour interdire a l'industrie miniere d'utiliser la main-d'oeuvre “tropicale”. Neanmoins, les recrutements clandestins se poursuivirent avec la complicite des organismes miniers de recrutement. La forte competition au sein de l'industrie a permis aux recruteurs illegaux et bandits qui controlaient l'offre de travail de se placer en position de pouvoir. Un fonctionnaire a pu parler alors de “ni plus ni moins qu'une sorte de traite d'esclaves.” L'article constate que les methodes competitives de recrutement ont joue un role important en periode de croissance rapide de l'emploi apres 1902...read more
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"No TEBA...forget TEBA": the plight of Malawian ex-migrant workers to South Africa, 1988-1994.
TL;DR: The authors examines the survival strategies and enterprising spirit of Malawian migrant workers and their households and argues that the strategies of these people often went beyond survival in the provision of basic necessities, and that the effects of retrenchment of the workers will spread from the migrant and his family through the economic and social wellspring of all sectors of rural communities and their commercial lives.
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‘Blackbirding’ at ‘Crooks’ corner’: illicit labour recruiting in the northeastern Transvaal, 1910–1940
TL;DR: In the early decades of the twentieth century, Africans in search of work were attracted to the wage-paying employment opportunities on the Witwatersrand. as discussed by the authors investigates the modus operandi of these unscrupulous labour recruiters and sheds light on wider questions concerning the historical formation of labour markets.
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Hyenas of the Limpopo : The Social Politics of Undocumented Movement Across South Africa’s Border with Zimbabwe
TL;DR: An increasing number of people today cross the Beitbridge border of South Africa and Zimbabwe and this comes with a corresponding growth of creative strategies that seek to aid the crossing of those p...
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Zimbabwe's Migrants and South Africa's Border Farms: The Roots of Impermanence
TL;DR: In this article, Maxim Bolt explores the lives of Zimbabwean migrant labourers, of settled black farm workers and their dependants, and of white farmers and managers, as they intersect on the border between Zimbabwe and South Africa.
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Uneven Labour Migration in Southern Africa
TL;DR: A number of general concepts have emerged which attempt to give substance to the nature and role of early labour migration, and it is increasingly apparent that many of these concepts, while not without value, may hinder rather than help further exploration of the making of migrant labour as mentioned in this paper.
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The rise and fall of the South African peasantry
TL;DR: The first edition of this book was hailed as a major reinterpretation of South African history and was criticised the prevailing view that African agriculture was primitive or backward, and attacked the notion that poverty and lack of development were a result of 'traditionalism' as discussed by the authors.
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Capitalism and colonialism in Mozambique
TL;DR: Vail and White as discussed by the authors present a detailed study of colonial plantations in Mozambique, focusing on the Quelimane district, the seat of the plantation economy which produced most of colonial Mozambica's commodity exports.
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The Recruiting of Chinese Indentured Labour for the South African Gold-Mines, 1903–1908
TL;DR: The Chamber of Mines Labour Importation Agency (CMLIA) as discussed by the authors was a recruiting and shipping company for the Transvaal gold mining industry in South Africa, which was characterized by a high degree of vertical integration.
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