The Story of an African Working Class

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Provides a history of working-class struggle in Ghana's gold mines and the miners battle against exploitative mining companies, repressive governments and authoritarian trade union leaders. Crisp explores the changing nature of life and work in the gold mines, from the colonial era into the 1980s, and examines the distinctive forms of political consciousness and organization which the miners developed. The study also provides a detailed account of the changing techniques of labor control employed by mining capital and the state, and shows how they failed to curb the workers' solidarity and tradition of militant resistance. --From publisher description