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Mining Migrant Worker Recruitment Policy and the Production of a Silicosis Epidemic in Late 20th-Century Southern Africa

OBJECTIVES: Between the 1980s and 2000s, an epidemic of silicosis was identified in migrant black gold miners, many from neighbouring countries, who had worked in the South African gold mines. This study uses the newly available employment database of a large gold mining company to demonstrate how a...

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Autores principales: Ehrlich, Rodney, Barker, Stephen, Montgomery, Alex, Lewis, Peter, Kistnasamy, Barry, Yassi, Annalee
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Ubiquity Press 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10064917/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37009028
http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/aogh.4059