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Author Mark-Thiesen, Cassandra, author.

Title Mediators, contract men, and colonial capital : mechanized gold mining in the Gold Coast Colony, 1879-1909 / Cassandra Mark-Thiesen
Published Rochester : University of Rochester Press, 2018

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Description 1 online resource
Series Rochester studies in African history and the diaspora ; v. 77
Rochester studies in African history and the diaspora ; v. 77.
Contents Prospectors, politicians, and the question of "progress": the first and second gold booms in Wassa -- Labor recruitment in the nineteenth century: the place of practicality -- Disrupted recruitment at the turn of the twentieth century: women, whites, and other labor agents -- Government strategies for assisting the mines -- Labor agents, chiefs and officials, 1905-1909: the incorporation of the northern territories' labor reserve
Summary An innovative study of labor relations, particularly the interactions of recruitment agents and migrant workers, in the mining concessions of Wassa, Gold Coast Colony, 1879 to 1909
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed February 13, 2018)
Subject Gold miners -- Recruiting -- Ghana -- History
Gold miners -- Effect of technological innovations on -- Ghana -- History
Labor supply -- Ghana -- History
Industrial relations -- Ghana -- History
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
HISTORY -- Africa -- West.
British colonies
Industrial relations
Labor supply
Colonies -- Administration
SUBJECT Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa -- Administration -- History
Ghana -- History -- To 1957. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054761
Subject Africa
Ghana
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781787441910
1787441911