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El Dorado in West Africa - The Gold-mining Frontier, African Labor and Colonial Capitalism in the Gold Coast, 1875-1900 (Paperback, New edition)
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El Dorado in West Africa - The Gold-mining Frontier, African Labor and Colonial Capitalism in the Gold Coast, 1875-1900 (Paperback, New edition)
Series: Western African Studies
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Reveals the impact of European capitalism on an African society.
Gold mining occupies a central place in the economic evolution of
Ghana. This text examines the period of transition from traditional
mining systems to mechanized, capitalized mining companies in the
Akan area of the Gold Coast. Looking at the role of African as well
as European mining entrepreneurs, female as well as male mining
labor, this study encompasses issues of gender, ethnicity, business
organization, pressure groups and exploitation. The author seeks to
reveal a new complexity in the economic and social history of
mining in the late 19th century. In particular he concludes that it
is in the individualization of land transfers to mining
concessionaires, rather than in themobilization of a permanent
unskilled wage labor force, that the greatest impact on economic
and social change can be measured. "Outstanding Academic Book"
American Library Association, 1999 North America: Ohio U Press
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