1st Edition

Class, Race and Gold A Study of Class Relations and Racial Discrimination in South Africa

By Frederick A Johnstone Copyright 1976
314 Pages
by Routledge

314 Pages
by Routledge

314 Pages
by Routledge

Originally published in 1976, this book is a sociological and historical study of class and race relations in a crucial sector of South Africa – the gold mining industry, during and following the First World War. The author develops a Marxist structuralist explanation of the system of racial discrimination, and then goes in to examine the significant historical events of this formative period,... Read more

1. Introduction Nancy Charton 2. Economic Development for the Ciskei P. A. Black 3. Scattered Towns or an Urban System? G. P. Cook 4. The Image of Agriculture in Two Ciskeian Rural Communities J. B. McI Daniel and N. L. Webb 5. The Ciskei Constitution F. G. Richings 6. The Administrative System in the Ciskei D. M. Groenewald 7. Ethnic Relations in the Ciskei C. W. Manona 8. Ciskeian Political Parties Nancy Charton and Gordon Renon kaTywakadi 9. The Legislature Nancy Charton 10. Mass Communication in a Transitional Society L. E. Switzer 11. Maqoma and Ciskeian Politics Today M. G. Whisson and C. W. Manona 12. The Economics and Politics of Dependence Nancy Charton.

Biography

Frederick A. Johnstone was Professor of Sociology at Memorial University of St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada.

‘This study is an empirical and analytical study of the first order.’ William C. Martin, Humboldt Journal of Social Relations, Vol 6 No. 2, 1979.