Capital and Labour on the Kimberley Diamond Fields, 1871-1890
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- Author(s) Turrell, Robert V
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1987
- Pages 380pp; illus
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Place Published Cambridge
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Scholarly account drawing on the writer's doctoral thesis and dealing with the interaction of capital - notably De Beers Diamond Mining Co and Kimberley Central Diamond Mining Co - and labour, with more on the latter than the former, but with detailed coverage of mining finance. The sections are: 'Diamond mining, an overview'; 'African labour in the early days'; 'The new colonial state, 1873-75'; 'Black Flag Revolt, an analysis; 'Company mining'; 'Share mania'; 'Depression and strike of 1883 and 1884'; 'Closed compound system'; 'Illicit diamond buying and the town economy'; 'Amalgamation' - control by Cecil Rhodes via De Beers of Barney Barnato's Kimberley Central