Going for Gold

Men, Mines, and Migration
1. Auflage 1994
ISBN: 978-0-520-08644-9
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 372 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 227 mm, Gewicht: 508 g

Reihe: Perspectives on Southern Africa

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Moodie, T.Dunbar

Ndatshe, Vivienne

Weitere Mitwirkende

Ndatshe, Vivienne

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Wirtschaftssoziologie, Arbeitssoziologie, Organisationssoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Geschichtswissenschaft: Theorie und Methoden
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Illustrations
Preface and Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction

ONE WORKER IDENTITIES: MIGRANT CULTURES,
SOCIAL NETWORKS, AND THE PRACTICE
OF PERSONAL INTEGRITY

TWO PRODUCTION POLITICS: WORKPLACE CONTROL
AND WORKER RESISTANCE

THREE CONFRONTATIONS AND COLLABORATIONS:

COMPOUND HEGEMONY AND MORAL ECONOMY

FOUR SEXUALITIES: VARIATIONS ON
A PATRIARCHAL THEME

FIVE CONVIVIALITIES: DRINKING PATTERNS

SIX FACTION FIGHTS: MINE-WORKER VIOLENCE

SEVEN SOLIDARITIES: PRACTICES OF UNIONIZATION

Conclusion
Glossary
References
Index

Über Autor(innen)

T. Dunbar Moodie is Professor of Sociology at Hobart and William Smith Colleges and the author of The Rise of Afrikanerdom (California, 1975). Vivienne Ndatshe is a former teacher who now works as a domestic servant. She grew up in Pondoland, where her father was a migrant gold miner. Her interviews with mine workers and their families added an essential dimension to this work.