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 95
... position to deduce that the goldmining industry , therefore , ' cannot produce any relative surplus - value and , in general , cannot produce that form of surplus - value which results from the growing productivity of labour as such ...
... position to deduce that the goldmining industry , therefore , ' cannot produce any relative surplus - value and , in general , cannot produce that form of surplus - value which results from the growing productivity of labour as such ...
Page 207
... position of the Buffelsdoorn Gold Mine and the attendant difficulty found in the procuring and retention of an efficient supply of native labour to carry on mining operations , a part of the policy of the company to overcome this ...
... position of the Buffelsdoorn Gold Mine and the attendant difficulty found in the procuring and retention of an efficient supply of native labour to carry on mining operations , a part of the policy of the company to overcome this ...
Page 244
... position of an electron , alters its position . Van Onselen's well - researched and richly - anecdoted two- volume study of the social and economic history of the early Witwatersrand adds a welcome human dimension to these questions ...
... position of an electron , alters its position . Van Onselen's well - researched and richly - anecdoted two- volume study of the social and economic history of the early Witwatersrand adds a welcome human dimension to these questions ...
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