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Going for Gold - Men, Mines, and Migration (Paperback, New)
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Going for Gold - Men, Mines, and Migration (Paperback, New)
Series: Perspectives on Southern Africa, 51
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This text tells the story of the lives of migrant black African men
who work in the South African gold mines, recounted from their own
point of view and, as much as possible, in their own words. Dunbar
Moodie examines the operation of local power structures and
resistances, changes in production techniques, the limits and
successes of unionization, and the nature of ethnic conflicts at
different periods and on different terrains of struggle. He treats
his subject thematically and historically, examining how notions of
integrity, manhood, sexuality, work, power, solidarity, and
violence have all changed over time, especially with the shift to a
proletarianized work-force on the mines in the 1970s. Moodie
integrates analyses of individual life-strategies with theories of
social change, illuminating the ways in which these play off each
other in historically significant ways. He shows how human beings
(in this case, African men) build integrity and construct their own
social order, even in situations of apparent total repression.
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