...Vladimir Shubin © 1999: Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa & the Middle East 1999 Digging in the Gold Mine: The Mayibuye Centre Archive as a Source on the History of the South Mkican Liberation Movement...

...Rebecca Gruskin Abstract In the 1920s and 1930s, the French colonial phosphate mining company in Gafsa, Tunisia, used X-ray images to decide which of its workers’ injuries were fake and which were real. Through an analysis of X-ray photography in Gafsa, this article argues that a capacious history...

... production—primarily steel and aluminum as well as coal and water. In this article, Damodaran and Padel examine the mining operations in Central India where Vedanta Resources, a corporation that has become symbolic of neoliberal capitalism in India today, brings huge new foreign investments in to exploit...

...Peter Alexander © 1999: Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa & the Middle East 1999 References Alabama , State of Annual Report of Coal Mines 1921 , (Birmingham: Birmingham Advertising Co.). Alexander , P. 1997 . “‘Not Miners, but Officials’: South Africa's...

...Carolyn A. Brown © 1995: South Asia Bulletin 1995 Struggles over the Labor Process: Enugu Government Colliery, Nigeria during World War I1 Carolyn A. Brown As the only coal mine in West Africa...

... and other times as bonded laborers. A colossal failure of land reforms, frequent natural calamities, utter neglect by Government to implement any form of development or agricultural programs in the rural areas drive, year after year, millions of India's rural poor to mines, plantations...

... workers form the largest sectors of working Probably one of the most important aspects affecting women in South Africa. Historically, women have not women’s health is the fact that women are more than often been employed by the mining or heavy engineering indus- voiceless with regards...

.... It parallels sources that reflect the experi- research and how even a topic such as coal mining ences of Ottoman Muslim refugees to the Turkish and miners can contribute to a history from above, Republic such as the Turkology Update Leiden from the perspective of the state. Project Working Papers...

... of the Zoutpansberg , edited by Van Warmelo Nicolaas Jacobus , 88 – 91 . Pretoria : Department of Native Affairs Ethnological Publications , 1940 . Manson Andrew Mbenga Bernard . Land, Chiefs, Mining: South Africa's North West Province since 1840 . Johannesburg : Wits University Press...

... on this “The Southern Chinese Borders in History” (28 – 50), is a more his- 616 essay. All mistakes in the essay remain mine alone. illustrate how integrating the two fields of study All in all, aside from some cursory ac- would be mutually beneficial and inspire innova- knowledgments...

... I.W.W. and Socialist Labour Party had ceased operat- The early South African labor movement, which ing by 1914. That same year, however, the nucleus of centered around the large urban center of the Witwa- a new revolutionary syndicalist body, the International tersrand and the gold-mining...

... sojourners in (white) urban areas when their labor was required. The hostels that are the subject of this article were mostly constructed from the mid- 1950s, namely, during the apart- heid era, and constituted an important plank in the government s policy to maintain migrancy among the non- mining African...

... Scenario; the forced relocation caused by the Bank-financed SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF power plant and coal mine, as well as the appalling human LARGESCALE DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS environmental and public health conditions to which...

... 9 266 Agricultural Laborers 14 171 15 794 Mining, quarrying, livestock, forestry, fishing, hunting, plantations 1 187 907 Household industry 4 665 1 331 Manufacturing other than household industry 789 865 Construction 243 204 Trade...

... of exaction of colonial violence in Tunisia overlaps quite directly with that of mines, industries, and large agricultural properties. In Tunisia, most of these barracks were placed at the heart of the phosphate mines, in the interior southern province of Gafsa and in its administrative seats such as Qasserin...

... regulations teacher-activists in his country. He was active in edu- safety standards in the mining industry? cational struggles in 1980 and 1985-86 and was in- It is hard to look at some of those issues without volved in the Western Cape precursor to today’s seeing them in every way as a particular...

...; the “state-­capitalist” model under long-­distance transmission system to the gold Visvesvaraya in the 1910s; and the later emergence mines operating in Kolar fields, located approxi- of a “Mysore model” of development helmed by mately ninety miles distant.23 Early discussions...

... , R. 1985 , rpt. 1994. “Migrants in Coal Mines 1850s–1947: Peasants or Proletarians?” Social Scientist , December, reprinted in Das Gupta, 1994, pp. 175 –208. Das Gupta , R. 1986 , rpt. 1994. “Factory Labor in Eastern India: Sources of Supply”, Indian Economic and Social History Review...

..., and and shipped them to colonies across the Indian Ocean, such Swahili traders took Chinese copper coins, silks, and in par- as South Africa. In the early twentieth century, thousands of ticular an abundance of porcelain to coastal cities and inland Chinese came to Africa to work in the mines; some went...

... and myriads of mine tunnels underneath. It ment that we were going to have to carry around, is a world where horrific secrets are hidden in the like the guy in Pilgrim’s Progress lugging around gated enclaves of the rich, while the masses consist- his sack of guilt. Apparently we attracted vermin...