The Formal and Informal Social Structure of a South African Gold Mine

Dados Bibliográficos

ID9889779
AutoresT Dunbar Moodie (Hobart and William Smith Colleges, autor correspondente)
Ano1980
Volume33
Fascículo8
Páginas555-574
Data de publicação1980-08-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoHuman Relations (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0018-7267 • E-ISSN: 1741-282X
EditoraSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/001872678003300803
OpenAlexW2168330772
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas10
Referências citadas6

The primary purpose of this article is to examine the structures of domination in a South African gold mine from the perspective of black migrant miners. The formal management organizational blueprint for mine and compound is compared with the actual social structure of the mine. The article concludes that the black miner's experience of domination in the South African gold mines is a complex combination of management-ordained authority and personal power on the part of a series of overlapping, sometimes conflicting, sometimes complementary, black fiefdoms; namely those of the Team Leader [boss boy], Personnel Assistant, Induna, and the clerks

Blueprint · Boss · Gold mining · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Power structure · Sociology · Computer Science · Engineering · Gender Studies · Law · Mining Techniques and Economics