South Africa's Gold Mines & the Politics of Silicosis

by Jock McCulloch

Examines the silicosis crisis in the South African mining industry, and reveals how the rate of, often fatal, tuberculosis among black migrant miners was hidden for over a century.

South Africa's gold mines are the largest and historically among the most profitable in the world. Yet at what human cost? This book reveals how the mining industry, abetted by a minority state, hid a pandemic of silicosis for almost a century and allowed miners...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1847010598
• ISBN13: 9781847010599
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: James Currey
• Length: 202 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.4"