Ruth First and the history of Social Sciences in Mozambique: the “black gold” and the migrant worker in South African mines
The present article describes the classical work of the Mozambican Social Sciences Black Gold: the Mozambican miner, proletarian and peasant (1983), writed by Ruth First in the end of seventies. The author was a communist militant and fought against Apartheid regime. The book explains the social sit...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2016 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC) |
| Repositorio: | Revista de Ciências Sociais |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:periodicos.ufc:article/2917 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://www.periodicos.ufc.br/revcienso/article/view/2917 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Ruth First Mozambique Black gold Migrant worker South Africa Moçambique Ouro Negro Trabalhador Migrante África do Sul |
| Sumario: | The present article describes the classical work of the Mozambican Social Sciences Black Gold: the Mozambican miner, proletarian and peasant (1983), writed by Ruth First in the end of seventies. The author was a communist militant and fought against Apartheid regime. The book explains the social situation of migrant workers in the mines of South Africa, originated from Inhambane, South province of Mozambique. This work is fundamental to understand the character of Mozambican Social Sciences after the Independence in 1975. By reading Ruth First’s book we can elaborate hypothesis about the exploitation of worker in the African mines today. Finally we will discuss how the use of categories proletarian and peasant in African countries helps us to understand the theoretical possibilities of Africa as object of research in the Social Sciences. |
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