The Golden Contradiction: A Marxist Theory of Gold : with Particular Reference to South AfricaThis is a work of political economy which explains how the traditional constancy of gold came to give way to a daily-fluctuating gold price. The fixed gold price is radically re-examined while the reverence of the gold standard system is challenged. The book looks at the gold producing labour, including the Wild West gold digger and the origins of apartheid in South Africa. |
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Page 129
... proletarianisation , come to compliment the fluidity and flexibility of capital attained by social capital . No sector can any longer isolate its capital from capital in general , neither can it its labour . The same applies to gold ...
... proletarianisation , come to compliment the fluidity and flexibility of capital attained by social capital . No sector can any longer isolate its capital from capital in general , neither can it its labour . The same applies to gold ...
Page 188
... proletarianisation process which followed in the wake of the great mineral discoveries and suggests an alternative ... proletarianised . The question of abstract labour , as conceived by a number of prominent theorists , will be examined ...
... proletarianisation process which followed in the wake of the great mineral discoveries and suggests an alternative ... proletarianised . The question of abstract labour , as conceived by a number of prominent theorists , will be examined ...
Page 243
... proletarianisation , and full and partial de - proletarianisation . None of these , however , by definition implies systematic working to death . Callous murder and systematic extermination did take place , but only extremely rarely was ...
... proletarianisation , and full and partial de - proletarianisation . None of these , however , by definition implies systematic working to death . Callous murder and systematic extermination did take place , but only extremely rarely was ...
Contents
Towards a theory of gold 1 Gold as money | 1 |
The moneycommodity and the value of labourpower | 49 |
Gold as capital | 77 |
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abstract labour amalgamation amount average becomes black workers capitalist Chamber of Mines character circuit of capital commodity competition concrete labour consumption contradiction cost diamond Duncan Innes emph exchange value expression factors of production financial markets fixed price gold as money gold mines gold production goldmining capital goldmining industry hence human labour ibid increase individual Innes Johannesburg Johnstone joint stock capital labour force lode London Marx Marx's means of production measure of value metals miners money-commodity monopoly native nature necessary labour-time nineteenth century Onselen paper currency particular use-value placer mining political economy productivity of labour proletarianisation quantity of gold Rand reduced relation remains role shafts silver slavery social capital social form South African goldmining standard of price superexploitation surplus surplus labour surplus-value thesis Ticktin Trewhela unit value of gold value of labour-power values of commodities wages wealth Williams Witwatersrand workforce