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Author Frankel, Philip, author.

Title Between the rainbows and the rain : Marikana, migration, mining and the crisis of modern South Africa / Philip Frankel.

Publication Info. Johannesburg, South Africa : Agency for Social Reconstruction, 2013.
©2013

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Description 1 online resource (197 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Book collections on Project MUSE.
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Political Science and Policy Studies Supplement.
Contents Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Contents; GLOSSARY OFFREQUENTLY USED ACRONYMS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE -Killing; CHAPTER TWO -Working; CHAPTER THREE -Migrating, Broking and Contracting; CHAPTER FOUR -- Living; CONCLUSION:OVER THE RAINBOW?; FOOTNOTES; Back cover.
Summary ÌRainbowsî dissects the South African ìmiracleî across a vast landscape from the shack settlements of Marikana to the highest levels of government and corporate behaviour in the South Africa mining industry. It sets out what we know about the Markana massacre against the background of hazardous work conditions in the mines two decades after ì liberationî. Going well beyond the Farlam Commission of Inquiry it also examines, for the first time, the nightmare world of labour broking-cum-human trafficking. It evaluates the prospects for improving life in the near-mine communities that magnetise th.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Language English.
Subject Miners -- South Africa -- Rustenburg.
Miners.
South Africa -- Rustenburg.
Miners -- Recruiting -- South Africa.
South Africa.
Migrant labor -- South Africa.
Migrant labor.
Contract labor -- South Africa.
Contract labor.
Industrial relations -- South Africa.
Industrial relations.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Frankel, Philip. Between the rainbows and the rain : Marikana, migration, mining and the crisis of modern South Africa. Johannesburg, South Africa : Agency for Social Reconstruction, ©2013 186 pages 9780620578141
ISBN 9780620578134 (e-book)
0620578130 (e-book)
9780620578141
0620578149 (paperback)