Introduction

Peter Richardson
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Peter Richardson: University of Melbourne

A chapter in Chinese Mine Labour in the Transvaal, 1982, pp 1-7 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract This book is a detailed case study of a series of events in the international political economy of the early twentieth century. Although it has a clearly defined geographical focus in southern Africa and China, its approach is thematic in nature. It is essentially concerned with three major developments in the spread of international capitalism: the circulation of capital and labour power, and the mining and production of gold, the money commodity. In the period 1890–1914, gold served as a measure of value, a standard of prices and a world currency, by means of which a world-wide circulation of goods, capital and labour was achieved.

Keywords: Labour Power; Liberal Party; Unionist Government; International Political Economy; Chinese Labour (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1982
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-04889-2_1

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