Going for Gold : Men, Mines and Migration

This work investigates, from their own point of view and, as much as possible, in their own words, the lives of migrant black African men who work on the South African gold mines.

The author examines the operation of local power structures and resistance, changes in production techniques, the limits and successes of unionization and the nature of ethnic conflicts in different periods and on different terrains of struggle.

Moodie treats his subject thematically and historically, examining how notions of integrity, manhood, sexuality, work, power, solidarity and violence have all changed over time.

He shows how human beings build integrity and construct their own social order, even in situations of apparently total repression.