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Reveals the impact of European capitalism on an African society.
Gold mining occupies a central place in the economic evolution of Ghana. This text examines the period of transition from traditional mining systems to mechanized, capitalized mining companies in the Akan area of the Gold Coast. Looking at the role of African as well as European mining entrepreneurs, female as well as male mining labor, this study encompasses issues of gender, ethnicity, business organization, pressure groups and exploitation. The author seeks to reveal a new complexity in the economic and social history of mining in the late 19th century. In particular he concludes that it is in the individualization of land transfers to mining concessionaires, rather than in themobilization of a permanent unskilled wage labor force, that the greatest impact on economic and social change can be measured.
"Outstanding Academic Book" American Library Association, 1999 North America: Ohio U Press
Contents
Geological structures and the location of gold in Ghana; traditional gold mining in the southwestern Akan region - African states, technology, political economy and gender; the Wassa "gold rush" of 1877-1885 - African and European promoters of mining capitalism; barriers to gold production in the 1880s - capitalization, technology, labour recruitment and transportation; the colonial government and the expanding miners frontier - pressures for mining district administration, health services and transport improvements; overcoming the odds - labour, technology, management and production at the bit three Wassa mining companies 1883-1897; retrospect and aftermath -mining frontiers, capitalism, labour and the colonial state.
