Sayyid Jamal ad-Din al-Afghani: A Political Biography
Sayyid Jamal ad-Din al-Afghani: A Political Biography
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赛义德·贾迈勒·阿德·阿富汗尼:政治传记
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10.1080/03612759.1972.9954953
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1972
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John E. Rexine
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John E. Rexine
In 1971 the concluding volume of the highly original Oxford History of South Afn’ca (2 vols., New York: Oxford University Press, 1969-1971) appeared. Among its contributors who were seeking to show how the interaction between peoples of different cultures and races constitutes the essence of South Africa’s history was Francis Wilson, a young lecturer in economics at the University of Cape Town. His chapter on farming in South Africa was perhaps the volume’s most stimulating and creative essay, and in it he showed how major technological and political changes can transform a segment of the South African economy while leaving unaltered the blackwhite, servant-master relationship within that segment.In this study, based upon his Cambridge dissertation, Wilson gives us a most essential book, and again he stresses how specific race relation patterns have been doggedly preserved in one of South Africa’s key industries. Responding to the question of whether or not the earnings of black labor in the gold mines could have been higher without reducing the reserves of payable ore or cutting too deeply into wages paid whites, Wilson presents a detailed analysis of the economics of labor policies. In seven chapters he describes the development of the gold mining industry, the formation of the Chamber of Mines, the supply and demand for labor, the role of the white unions to protect their earnings, and the industrial, social, and governmental regulations that may cripple the industry’s ability to survive.