ABSTRACT
This book draws together international contributors to analyse a wide range of aspects of mining history across the globe including mining archaeology, technologies of mining, migration and mining, the everyday life of the miner, the state and mining, industrial relations in mining, gender and mining, environment and mining, mining accidents, the visual history of mining, and mining heritage. The result is a counter balance to more common national and regional case study perspectives.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 2|40 pages
Archaeology of mining in the pre-industrial age
The recognition and interpretation of ancient mines
chapter 3|23 pages
Engineering changes
The cause and consequence of modern mining methods at Butte, Montana; Johannesburg, South Africa; and Broken Hill, New South Wales
chapter 4|19 pages
A comparative account of deep-level gold mining in India and South Africa
Implications for workers’ lives
chapter 5|22 pages
Local moments in mining history
Some ideas on the relationship between foreign and native in Mexican silver mining
chapter 9|19 pages
Accidents and mining
The problem of the risk of explosion in industrial coal mining in global perspective
chapter 10|22 pages
On fatalities, accidents and accident prevention in coalmines
Colliers’ safety discourse in oral testimony from the Ruhr in Germany and the Witbank collieries in South Africa
chapter 12|15 pages
This land is my land
Global indigenous struggles and the Adivasi resistance in Muthanga (Kerala, India)
