<p>The Emergence of Modern South Africa views economic conflict, specifically the interaction of the state, big business, and labor, as the central issue in the development of South Africa. Yudelman focuses on the labor-management conflict in the country's gold fields in the early decades of this century, a time and place critical to the development of the state. At that time government walked a tightrope between supporting big business (to ensure economic growth) and appeasing the workers (to remain in power). Yudelman demonstrates how a symbiotic alliance between the mining companies and the state successfully subjugated the workers, and points out that this unique relationship continues to this day, dominating every aspect of life in South Africa. David Yudelman's historical analysis and lengthy epilogue on the 1970s and 1980s shed light on today's economic unrest and those conflicts to come. His book also shows how the South African case provides early and important insights into the development of the state-business symbiosis in industrial societies everywhere.</p>

The Emergence of Modern South Africa: State, Capital, and the Incorporation of Organized Labor on the South African Gold Fields, 1902-1939 (Contributions in Comparative Colonial Studies)

Business & Money

Yudelman, David

Economics

Praeger

This book explores the complex interplay of factors fueling the transformation of the gold mining industry in South Africa. Basing their work on archival sources, contemporary evidence and interviews with mining personnel, the authors chart the expansion and break-up of the mine regional labour "empire" from 1920 through the mid-1970s and explore conflicts between the industry and the state over labour "sourcing", the mobilization of South African labour for the mines, the effects of workforce stabilization for black miners and their home communities, and the emergence of a new racial division of labour in the mining industry. The book concludes with an analysis of the National Union of Mineworkers, speculating on whether its gains over the last decade are so firmly entrenched that they are unlikely to be overturned by either the state or private industry.

South Africa's Labor Empire: A History Of Black Migrancy To The Gold Mines (African Modernization and Development Series)

Crush, Jonathan

Jeeves, Alan

Westview Press

South Africa's Labour Empire: A History of Black Migrancy to the Gold Mines

History

World

New Africa Books

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