Anglo: Anglo American and the Rise of Modern South AfricaHistory of major mining and manufacturing activities in South Africa R, analysing the economic role of private enterprise monopoly and growth of multinational enterprises - examines economic activity in gold and diamonds, social conflicts and strikes, capitalist expansion prior to and during the war, industrial concentration, financing, investment, political power, social implications since the 1960s, etc. Bibliography, diagrams and statistical tables. |
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Page 27
... wages and working conditions for themselves . As a result , wages on the mines began to rise . " From 1869 to 1870 - that is , prior to the discovery of the main diamond ' pipes ' - African wages were around 2s . 6d . per man per week ...
... wages and working conditions for themselves . As a result , wages on the mines began to rise . " From 1869 to 1870 - that is , prior to the discovery of the main diamond ' pipes ' - African wages were around 2s . 6d . per man per week ...
Page 37
... wage bargaining from labour to capital , enabling the mine - owners at last to stop the upward drift of wages . After 1886 black wages were gradually reduced to a uniform level of between 7s . 6d . and 15s . per week plus food and ...
... wage bargaining from labour to capital , enabling the mine - owners at last to stop the upward drift of wages . After 1886 black wages were gradually reduced to a uniform level of between 7s . 6d . and 15s . per week plus food and ...
Page 83
... wages in the gold industry fell from £ 16.7m in 1921 to £ 13.3m in 1923 ( a drop of 20.4 per cent ) , while the value of dividends distributed by the industry rose from £ 7.3m in 1921 to £ 8.5m in 1923 ( a rise of 14 per cent ) . 25 ...
... wages in the gold industry fell from £ 16.7m in 1921 to £ 13.3m in 1923 ( a drop of 20.4 per cent ) , while the value of dividends distributed by the industry rose from £ 7.3m in 1921 to £ 8.5m in 1923 ( a rise of 14 per cent ) . 25 ...
Contents
List of Tables | 10 |
The Rise of the De Beers Monopoly in Diamonds | 37 |
Forging the Monopoly Group System in Gold | 45 |
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31 December AAC Maj African workers AMAPROP AMCAN AMCOAL AMGOLD AMIC Anglo American Corp Anglo American Group Anglo Group Anglo holding company Annual Report areas Barclays Barlow Rand Beers black labour black workers Boart & Hard Botswana capitalist cent Central Mining Chamber of Mines Coal company Anglo holding Consolidated Copper Corporation diamond industry East Rand economic Ernest Oppenheimer expand Financial Mail Francana Gold Fields gold mining Hard Metals Highveld important increase interests investment Johannesburg Kimberley labour force largest London Ltd AAC major manufacturing ment merger mine-owners Mines Ltd Mines Selection mining industry MINORCO monopoly capitalism Mozambique Name of company Namibia Nedsual operation Orange Free panies phase political production profits Rand Mines Rand Selection Randsel relations RHOAM Rhodesia Scaw sector share South Africa South African Breweries southern Africa Special Survey subsidiary take-over tion Transvaal Union Corp velopment wages Witwatersrand Zambia