Author: Gladys RobertsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
The Story of the Discovery of the Orange Free State Goldfields
Author: Gladys RobertsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
The Orange Free State Goldfields
Author: Dorothy Mary SinclairPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gold mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
The Orange Free State Goldfield
Author: Anglo American Corporation of South Africa, ltdPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gold mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
A Story of Discovery of the Orange Free State Goldfields
Author: Gladys RobertsThe History of Geophysics in Southern Africa
Author: Johan H de BeerPublisher: AFRICAN SUN MeDIA
ISBN: 192068980X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 641
Book Description
Geophysics is a comparatively young science which only evolved as a distinct discipline during the 19th century. However, its phenomena (like earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions and lightning) had been objects of fear, curiosity and speculation since ancient times. In this book, Johan de Beer and his research team reveal that geophysical activity in South Africa can be traced back to as early as 1488. This is a truly astonishing revelation which deserves to be firmly entrenched as part of the country?s proud history. The book also discusses the history and formation of South African geophysical institutions that made a huge and seldom acknowledged contribution to the technological development of southern Africa.
Report of the Annual Meeting of the South African Association for the Advancement of Science
Author: Official Year Book of the Union and of Basutoland, Bechuanaland Protectorate, and Swaziland
Author: South Africa. Office of Census and StatisticsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : South Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 1048
Book Description
No. 1 contains "statistics mainly for the period 1910-1916".
Employer and Worker Collective Action
Author: Andrew G. LawrencePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107071755
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
This book compares sources of worker and employer power in Germany, South Africa, and the United States in order to identify the sources of comparative U.S. decline in union power and to more precisely analyze the nature of labor-movement power. It finds that this power is not confined to allied parties, union confederations, or strikes, but rather consists of the capacity to autonomously translate power from one context to the next. By combining their product, labor market, and labor law advantages through their dominant employers' associations, leading firms are able to impose constraints on labor's free collective bargaining regionally and nationally, defeating employer interests that are more amenable to labor in the process. Through an examination of these patterns of interest organization, the book shows, however, that initial employer advantages prove to be contingent and unstable and that employers are forced to cede to more far-reaching demands of increasingly organized workers.
Our Precious Metal
Author: Wilmot Godfrey JamesPublisher: New Africa Books
ISBN: 9780864861658
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Since the early 1970s, the South African gold-mining industry, for decades dominated by a set of fixed and unchanging features, has undergone a transformation. Above all, it is in the area of labour relations that changes have been most rapid and profound. Faced with a crisis in traditional patterns of labour recruitment, the mines have been forced to revise their sourcing and recruiting strategies and in so doing have struck at the heart of the migrant labour system. At the same time, in an attempt to contain the crisis of control, the mines have, for the first time in a hundred years, permitted trade unions to organise among workers, and in consequence the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) has emerged as a powerful force in the industry. These processes are the subject of Wilmot James's sociological and historical study of African mine workers, which provides the first major account in twenty years of labour in South Africa's gold industry. In his lucid and original analysis, based on material much of which was not previously available to researchers, Wilmot James traces the interlocking developments which have brought about a transformation in the gold industry, and relates these to wider processes of change in contemporary South African society.
Making Sense of Mining History
Author: Stefan BergerPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429516959
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
This book draws together international contributors to analyse a wide range of aspects of mining history across the globe including mining archaeology, technologies of mining, migration and mining, the everyday life of the miner, the state and mining, industrial relations in mining, gender and mining, environment and mining, mining accidents, the visual history of mining, and mining heritage. The result is a counter balance to more common national and regional case study perspectives.