Black Workers White Supervisors

Black Workers White Supervisors: The Emergence of the Labor Structure in South Africa - This book argues that the contours of the labor structure in South Africa first emerged in the agricultural and pastoral economy of the Cape colony under the Dutch East India Company (DEIC) from the mid seventeenth century on wards. This period set the division of labor along crude racial lines. The bifurcated structure of labor was later refined, institutionalized and dignified during the development of the mining industry: first in copper, then diamond and especially gold mining in the country during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.