ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an overview of the concepts discussed in first part of this book. The part examines the system of racial discrimination in the gold mining industry, by reference to the wider economic system and social formation in which it was situated. It first elucidates the specific nature of the involvement in racial discrimination of the two white groups operating the system, and the specific nature of the system. The part shows how this involvement, and the specific forms and functions of racial discrimination, were generated and determined by the specific class problems and interests of these groups. This is derived from their specific positions in the capitalist system of production and class structure of which they formed a part. And the system was explained as a system of class instruments, referred to as class colour bars, which were measures of racial discrimination which served to resolve the class problems and secure the interests of these groups.
