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Making sense of mining history / [edited by] Stefan Berger (director of the Institute for Social Movements, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, and chairman of the Foundation History of the Ruhr), Peter Alexander (director of the Centre for Social Change, University of Johannesburg, South Africa).
| Other author | Berger, Stefan. |
| Other author | Alexander, Peter, 1953 October 29- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019. |
| Description | pages cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Taylor & Francis eBooks |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Foreword / Stefan Berger and Peter Alexander -- Mining history : sub-fields and agendas / Stefan Berger -- Archaeology of mining in the pre-industrial age : the recognition and interpretation of ancient mines / Simon Timberlake -- Engineering changes : the cause and consequence of modern mining methods at Butte, Montana; Johannesburg, South Africa; and Broken Hill, New South Wales / Jeremy Mouat -- A comparative account of deep-level gold mining in India and South Africa : implications for workers' lives / Dunbar Moodie -- Local moments in mining history : some ideas on the relationship between foreign and native in Mexican silver mining / Alma Parra -- Coal-mining, migration, and ethnicity : a global history / Ad Knotter -- Culture and classed identity in shaping unionisation on mines / Peter Alexander. |
| Contents | Feminising an ancient human endeavour : gendered spaces in mining / Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt -- Accidents and mining : the problem of the risk of explosion in industrial coal mining in global perspective / Michael Farrenkopf -- On fatalities, accidents, and accident prevention in coal mines : colliers' safety discourse in oral testimony from the Ruhr in Germany and the Witbank Collieries in South Africa / Paul Stewart and Dagmar Kift -- The state, labour conflicts, and coal mining / Chris Wrigley -- This land is my land : global indigenous struggles and the adivasi resistance in Muthanga (Kerala, India) / Pavithra Narayanan -- Black gold and environmental enemy no. 1 : towards a visual history of coal / Stefan Siemer -- Environmental history and global mining : towards a neo-materialist approach / Timothy J. LeCain -- Mining heritage / Stefan Berger. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2019007833 |
| ISBN | 9780367198688 (hardback) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |