Mining Gold and Manufacturing Ignorance: Occupational Lung Disease and the Buying and Selling of Labour in Southern Africa
by Jock Mcculloch, Pavla Miller
Mining Gold and Manufacturing Ignorance explores occupational lung disease in Southern Africa through the intertwined histories of gold mining, labour markets, and the production of knowledge. The book examines how workplace illness and understandings of it have shaped, and been shaped by, the buying and selling of labour.
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Mining Gold and Manufacturing Ignorance examines occupational lung disease in Southern Africa.
The book connects the history of gold mining with the buying and selling of labour.
It considers how knowledge and ignorance surrounding workplace illness have been produced and circulated.
Jock Mcculloch and Pavla Miller bring historical and social perspectives to the relationship between industry, labour, and disease.
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