Mining Migrant Worker Recruitment Policy and the Production of a Silicosis Epidemic in Late 20th-Century Southern Africa

• Main Authors: Rodney Ehrlich (Author), Stephen Barker (Author), Alex Montgomery (Author), Peter Lewis (Author), Barry Kistnasamy (Author), Annalee Yassi (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Ubiquity Press, 2023-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Objectives: Between the 1980s and 2000s, an epidemic of silicosis was identified in migrant black goldminers, many from neighbouring countries, on the South African gold mines. This studies aimed to use the newly available employment database of a large goldmining company to demonstrate how a sustai...