Towards Safer Underground Gold Mining
Author : J. P. Leger
Publisher :
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 27,87 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Apartheid
ISBN :
Third World Workers
Author : P.C.W. Gutkind
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 14,91 MB
Release : 2021-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9004478019
Book Description
Making Sense of Mining History
Author : Stefan Berger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 25,76 MB
Release : 2019-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0429516959
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.
Going for Gold
Author : T. Dunbar Moodie
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 35,81 MB
Release : 1994-09-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780520086449
Book Description
"An indispensable look at the working conditions, social lives, and collective action of black miners. . . . [Moodie's] meticulous, reflective, incessantly questioning approach to power, drink, sexuality, conflict, and routine life in mines and compounds reveals an extraordinary world at the edge of hope and desperation."—Charles Tilly, The New School for Social Research "Combines a rigorous use of theory with a marvellous and sensitive sympathy."—Terence O. Ranger, co-editor of The Invention of Tradition
Violence in a Time of Liberation
Author : Donald L. Donham
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 43,48 MB
Release : 2011-07-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0822348535
Book Description
This ethnographic analysis of violence that broke out in a South African gold mine soon after apartheid ended in 1994 shows how violence comes to be blamed on ethnic differences retrospectively&—and often wrongly.
Finding Gold in Colorado - Prospector's Edition
Author : Kevin Singel
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 19,67 MB
Release : 2018-05-26
Category :
ISBN : 9781719553469
Book Description
Travel guide book inspired by the gold prospecting origin of Colorado. Includes touring information on all the major towns founded as gold mining camps as well as summaries of each town's origin story. Includes reviews and recommendations on historic districts to visit, mines to tour, driving tours of ghost towns and places to gold pan. Includes information on 16 historic districts, 31 museums, 18 mines, 186 gold panning sites across the state of Colorado. Thoroughly researched to confirm public access to the panning sites (no private property or areas subject to mining claim has been included - unlike other books.)Written by a long-time Colorado resident and gold prospector. Based on years of research and field work.Get your share of the gold by prospecting for it in historic, urban, and remote locations across the gold districts of Colorado.
Artisanal and Small-scale Mining
Author : Thomas Hentschel
Publisher : IIED
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 48,80 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Mineral industries
ISBN : 1843694700
Book Description
Based on studies from countries in Africa, South America and Asia, looks at small-scale mining activities which often are both illegal and environmentally damaging, and dangerous for workers and their communities. Gives an overview on the issues and challenges involved, concluding about how sustainable development can be achieved.
Production, Safety and Teamwork in a Deep-Level Mining Workplace
Author : Sizwe Timothy Phakathi
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 33,89 MB
Release : 2017-11-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1787145646
Book Description
The book highlights the day-to-day lived experience of miners’ work and organisational practices that shape the day-to-day running of the production process in a deep-level mining workplace.
Critical Engagement with Public Sociology
Author : Andries Bezuidenhout
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 13,43 MB
Release : 2024-01-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1529221153
Book Description
Involving four generations of Global South researchers, this book provides a theoretical and empirical critique of Burawoy’s model of public sociology. It offers a bridge between debates on public sociology and decolonial frameworks.
Advances in Productive, Safe, and Responsible Coal Mining
Author : Joseph Hirschi
Publisher : Woodhead Publishing
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 24,43 MB
Release : 2018-08-18
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0081013019
Book Description
Advances in Productive, Safe, and Responsible Coal Mining covers the latest advancements in coal mining technology and practices. It gives a comprehensive introduction to the latest research and technology developments, addressing problems and issues currently being faced, and is a valuable resource of complied technical information on the latest coal mining safety and health research. As coal's staying power has been at the forefront of the world's energy mix for more than a century, this book explores critical issues affecting coal mining, including how to maintain low-cost productivity, address health and safety hazards, and how to be responsible environmental stewards. This book takes a holistic approach in addressing each issue from the perspective of its impact on the coal mining operation and industry as a whole. - Explains how to effectively produce coal within existing environmental constraints - Encapsulates the latest health and safety research and technological advances in the coal mining industry - Written by authors who have developed the latest technology for coal mines
