| Going for Gold: Men, Mines, and Migration Volume 51 Contributor(s): Moodie, T. Dunbar (Author), Ndatshe, Vivienne (Contribution by) |
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ISBN: 0520086449 ISBN-13: 9780520086449 Publisher: University of California Press OUR PRICE: $34.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 1994 Annotation: "An indispensable look at the working conditions, social lives, and collective action of black miners. . . . [Moodie's] meticulous, reflective, incessantly questioning approach to power, drink, sexuality, conflict, and routine life in mines and compounds reveals an extraordinary world at the edge of hope and desperation."--Charles Tilly, The New School for Social Research "Combines a rigorous use of theory with a marvellous and sensitive sympathy."--Terence O. Ranger, co-editor of "The Invention of Tradition |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Africa - South - Republic Of South Africa - Political Science | Labor & Industrial Relations - Social Science | Sociology - General |
| Dewey: 305.962 |
| LCCN: 93038187 |
| Series: Perspectives on Southern Africa |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.97" W x 8.92" (1.12 lbs) 372 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Southern Africa - Ethnic Orientation - African - Cultural Region - African |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book tells the story of the lives of migrant black African men who work on the South African gold mines, told 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. |