West African labour and the development of mechanised mining in southwest Ghana, c.1870s to 1910
Wassa in southwest Ghana was the location of the largest mining sector in colonial British West Africa. The gold mines provide an excellent case study of how labour was mobilised for large-scale production immediately after the legal end of slavery, in the context of an expansive independent labour...
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2014
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