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Mining Gold and Manufacturing Ignorance - Occupational Lung Disease and the Buying and Selling of Labour in Southern Africa (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2023)
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Mining Gold and Manufacturing Ignorance - Occupational Lung Disease and the Buying and Selling of Labour in Southern Africa (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2023)
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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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