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A Working Class in the Making: Belgian Colonial Labor Policy, Private Enterprise, and the African Mineworker, 1907-1951
by John Higginson
Product Group: Book
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press (1990-01-15)
ISBN: 0299120740
EAN: 9780299120740
Dewy Decimal #: 331.762209675109041
Paperback: 328 pages
SKU: M3097
Condition: Good
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Product Description
For colonial administrators and the Belgian banks, the Belgian Congo was an immensely rich source of raw materials; diamonds, gold, manganese, oils, nuts, tobacco, peanuts, etc. One of the major forms of exploitation of the Congo was the effort to set up mining companies and to force Africans to work in the mines to extract these resources. Focusing on the most powerful of these mining companies—the Union Minière du Haut-Katange, John Higginson provides a detailed history of the relationship between the company and the African workers from 1907 through 1951
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