University of California Press Moodie, T: Going for Gold

"An indispensable look at the working conditions, social lives, and collective action of black miners. . . . (Moodie's) meticulous, reflective, incessantly questioning approach to power, drink, sexuality, conflict, and routine life in mines and compounds reveals an extraordinary world at the edge of hope and desperation."--Charles Tilly, The New School for Social Research "Combines a rigorous use of theory with a marvellous and sensitive sympathy."--Terence O. Ranger, co-editor of "The Invention of Tradition ...