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| Title: | The development of a labour infrastructure: migration routes to the Witwatersrand gold mines and compound accommodation - 1889 to 1912 |
| Author: | MacNamara, J.K. |
| Year: | 1978 |
| Periodical: | South African Labour Bulletin |
| Volume: | 4 |
| Issue: | 3 |
| Pages: | 7-28 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | South Africa |
| Subjects: | labour recruitment miners |
| Abstract: | This paper describes the early development of a system of labour recruitment, and accommodation and control for gold lames on the Witwatersrand, up until the formation of the Native Recruiting Corporation (N.R.C.) in 1912, Sections; the need for a cheap labour in supply - ten years of labour touting: 1889-1899 - obstacles to the flow of labour from sources of in supply - the establishment of a labour recruitiaent infrastructure - compounds townships and the control of labour. Map. |