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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... workforce , is reflected in South African scholarship by the diverse variety of positions defended , rather than by the depth and richness of explanation offered . A question which remains far from resolved is that of the genesis ...
... workforce , is reflected in South African scholarship by the diverse variety of positions defended , rather than by the depth and richness of explanation offered . A question which remains far from resolved is that of the genesis ...
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... workforce came to be associated . We will show that these peculiarities flow from the manner in which the black workforce was created . This manner reflects three projects on the part of capital : ( i ) to reduce the market price of ...
... workforce came to be associated . We will show that these peculiarities flow from the manner in which the black workforce was created . This manner reflects three projects on the part of capital : ( i ) to reduce the market price of ...
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... workforce , in preference the white workforce or the total workforce , for a number of reasons : ( i ) the nature of gold as commodity - capital , as distinct from other commodities as commodity - capital , and the nature of gold ...
... workforce , in preference the white workforce or the total workforce , for a number of reasons : ( i ) the nature of gold as commodity - capital , as distinct from other commodities as commodity - capital , and the nature of gold ...
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