| | This exciting collection was selected from the 35 research papers presented at the History Workshop at the University of the Witwatersrand in February 1978. Burke and Richardson give a sober account of yet another example of what van Onselen called 'the economics of death' in their account of the incidence of miners' phthisis in the hard-rock mines of Cornwall and the Rand. 'The picture in Cornwall between 1876 and 1919 is one of almost uninterrupted unwillingness to control the disease of phthisis' , since implementing measures of control would have threatened the profits on which the tin mining industry depended. |
