Over-Reach: The South African Gold Mines and the Struggle for the Labour of Zambesia, 1890-1920

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Title:	Over-Reach: The South African Gold Mines and the Struggle for the Labour of Zambesia, 1890-1920
Author:	Jeeves, Alan H.
Year:	1983
Periodical:	Canadian Journal of African Studies
Volume:	17
Issue:	3
Pages:	393-412
Language:	English
Geographic term:	South Africa
Subjects:	labour recruitment gold mining Labor and Employment History and Exploration Ethnic and Race Relations Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups)
External link:	https://www.jstor.org/stable/484924
Abstract:	This article focuses on the labour touts who held African labourers and the mining industry at ransom during the early years of the twentieth century. These intermediaries rather than the institutionalised recruiting agencies of WNLA (Witwatersrand Native Labour Association) and the NRC (Native Recruiting Corporation), clearly influenced the mobilisation and direction of the black labour force. Notes, sum. in French.