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Catherine Warr
@HiddenYorkshire
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the national archives: we've digitised the file so you don't have to go all the way to london to view it :) :)

the digitised file:
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Duncan Money@mininghistory
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Remarkable how mining companies used to talk about trade unions. This is about Namibia in the early 1980s.
Excerpt from a report. Text reads: "The Financial Mail quoted a mining industry spokesman as saying: "You'll find worker solidarity on individual mines and a high degree of politicisation. Though compounds are ready-made for organisation, the constraint is one of a countrywide industrial union. The massive distances make for a problem of communication between mines. Logistically, unionisation will probably come about as a combination of in-house unions linked to a national union."
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Duncan Money@mininghistory
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Replying to @mininghistory
Hard to imagine an industry figure today assessing worker solidarity and the degree of politicisation.
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Duncan Money@mininghistory
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Replying to @mininghistory
The prediction of how a national union would be formed was correct as well. In 1986, four years after this was written, worker committees from the diamond mines in the south and metal mines in the north formed the Mineworkers Union of Namibia.
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Structural Econometrics Truther@MetricsTruther
Nov 7
I was digitizing the Financial Times archives from the 1970's to see how labour disputes impacted the economy.

Unfortunately, there is a two week hole in the data in August 1977, when the Financial Times printers went on strike.
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Duncan Money@mininghistory
Nov 6
I've put together an interactive map showing how long it took to sail between different ports around Africa in the 1950s.

The 'plan a journey' option shows journey times between any two ports:

duncanmoney.github.io/ocean-liner-ma…
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Duncan Money@mininghistory
Nov 6
Replying to @mininghistory
It's often hard to work out how long it took people to travel between places in the recent past. I hope to add more routes and time periods to this map if I can find other sources (this map is based on Union Castle timetables from 1955 and 1956).
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Duncan Money@mininghistory
Nov 6
Replying to @mininghistory
If you have other timetables you're able to share, please get in touch.
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drumm colin (nyc)@drumm_colin
Nov 5
Replying to @drumm_colin
As a student of history the main thing youll discover is that your assumptions are always falling apart. History is just really confusing, it doesnt work like you expect
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Geoffrey York@geoffreyyork
Nov 5
What caused the mysterious crash that killed UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld near Ndola in 1961?
New report: "It is almost certain that material information exists that has not been disclosed, principally by South Africa, the UK and the US."
PassBlue
@pass_blue
Nov 5
". . . it remains plausible that an external attack or threat was a cause of the crash of the plane carrying Dag Hammarskjold in 1961":

UN SecGen re death of Hammarskjold of Sweden & others 65 yrs ago

**ID's 3 "key" countries w/important info, UK, US & South Africa, but not forthcoming so far
digitallibrary.un.org/record/4131863…
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Duncan Money@mininghistory
Nov 4
New open access article about mining, malaria and environmental management in Zambia by Chibamba Jennifer Chansa.

The mines dumped toxic mine tailings in water bodies to prevent mosquitos breeding, which had other bad consequences:

tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
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Peter Limb@pclimb
Nov 2
Interesting.
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George Roberts@g_m_roberts
Nov 2
A short reflection on the life and work of the late John Iliffe
The Chanzo
@TheChanzo
Oct 31
John Iliffe and the Making of Tanzanian History | By George Roberts

thechanzo.com/2026/10/31/joh…
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Duncan Money@mininghistory
Nov 2
I've got two chapters in the new Economic History of Natural Resources, which will be published in January: one on 'Labour History and the Economics of Natural Resources' and the other, pleasingly, just titled 'Mining'.

routledge.com/The-Routledge-…
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Duncan Money@mininghistory
Nov 2
Replying to @mininghistory
I'll make open access versions of my chapters once the book is published since it is price at £260.
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Gorkem Akgoz@gorkem_akgoz
Oct 30
The book will be published in the Work around the World book series of the International Institute of Social History.
Duncan Money@mininghistory
Oct 30
Very pleased to be contributing a chapter to what will be a great book on African labour and economic history.

Provisional table of contents below. It should be published open access by UCL Press early next year.
Table of contents for a book: "Provisional ToC 1. Capitalists Without Capitalism: Entrepreneurs, Capitalists and Labour in Africa South of the Sahara, 1600-1900 Gareth Austin, Cambridge University, UK 2. From Slave to Forced Labour in Africa: A Long History of Commodification, 1600-1900 Stefano Bellucci, IISH and Leiden University, The Netherlands 3. Wage Labour in Africa South of the Sahara, 1600-1900 Klas Rönnbäck, University of Gothenburg, Sweden 4. Changing Labour Relations in Egypt, 1600-1900 Pascale Ghazaleh, American University of Cairo, Egypt and Zoe Ann Griffith, Baruch College CUNY, USA  5. Slave and Unfree Labour in North Africa, 1600-1900 M’hamed Oualdi, European University Institute, Italy 6. Labour Relations in African Swahili Coast, 1600-1900 Samuel A. Nyanchoga, Catholic University of Eastern Africa, Kenya 7. Labour in the Lusophone West Africa prior to 1600-1800 Filipa Ribeiro da Silva, IISH, The Netherlands 8. Slave Labour in Africa under Portuguese rule, 1800-1900 Eu
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Duncan Money@mininghistory
Oct 30
Very pleased to be contributing a chapter to what will be a great book on African labour and economic history.

Provisional table of contents below. It should be published open access by UCL Press early next year.
Table of contents for a book: "Provisional ToC 1. Capitalists Without Capitalism: Entrepreneurs, Capitalists and Labour in Africa South of the Sahara, 1600-1900 Gareth Austin, Cambridge University, UK 2. From Slave to Forced Labour in Africa: A Long History of Commodification, 1600-1900 Stefano Bellucci, IISH and Leiden University, The Netherlands 3. Wage Labour in Africa South of the Sahara, 1600-1900 Klas Rönnbäck, University of Gothenburg, Sweden 4. Changing Labour Relations in Egypt, 1600-1900 Pascale Ghazaleh, American University of Cairo, Egypt and Zoe Ann Griffith, Baruch College CUNY, USA  5. Slave and Unfree Labour in North Africa, 1600-1900 M’hamed Oualdi, European University Institute, Italy 6. Labour Relations in African Swahili Coast, 1600-1900 Samuel A. Nyanchoga, Catholic University of Eastern Africa, Kenya 7. Labour in the Lusophone West Africa prior to 1600-1800 Filipa Ribeiro da Silva, IISH, The Netherlands 8. Slave Labour in Africa under Portuguese rule, 1800-1900 Eu
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Duncan Money@mininghistory
Oct 30
Replying to @mininghistory
An earlier version of my chapter on labour and capital in South Africa from the 17th to 19th centuries is available here:

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
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Duncan Money@mininghistory
Oct 29
Two years later, these men became employees of Anglo American, when Ford divested from South Africa and sold a majority stake to the mining company.
History ZAR
@HistorySAZAR
Oct 29
Black workers at a Ford plant, c. 1985. Credit: William F. Campbell/Getty
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Duncan Money retweeted
zerobeta
@zerobeta
Oct 28
GH HILL
@GHHILL1911
Oct 27
Morton salt is mined 2,000 feet below Lake Erie. And now the lake is leaking into the mine. The mine was evacuated, with no injuries. Do not expect the mine to reopen anytime soon. Or ever.
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