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Text in English / This research focuses upon the killing on 16 August 2012, by the South African Police Service, of miners working in Marikana, in the North West Province, in their struggle for a just wage. This experience highlighted the ethical question of the relationship between the employee and the employer. This research investigates this question by reference to the evolution of the doctrine of the “just wage” and the “just price” in Western moral philosophy. The investigation shows that this Western doctrine is a significant basis for an ethical evaluation of the relationship between employee and the employer. However, the doctrine does require expansion by taking the woman as an indispensable factor in labour relations. Also, it requires deepening by engaging in dialogue with other philosophies of the world, in this particular case, the philosophy of Ubuntu. The dialogue with Ubuntu is justified by the fact that the majority of the miners, the actual diggers of the mineral wealth, are born into and nurtured through the philosophy of Ubuntu, even if some may have reservations about it. The dialogue reveals a specific philosophical issue, namely, a clash of the epistemological and moral paradigms. The Ubuntu epistemological-ethical maxim of feta kgomo o tshware motho (if and when one must choose between the continual accumulation of wealth and the preservation of human life then one ought to opt for the latter) is fundamentally at odds with capitalism, an economic system that elevates wealth and money to the status of a deity. A resolution of this conflict is an ethical imperative. / Philosophy, Practical and Systematic Theology / D. Litt. et Phil. (Philosophy)

Submitted in fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Masters in Management Sciences(Peace-building), Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2015. / This study examines gender based violence in a mining community and uses the case study of Trojan Nickel Mine in Mashonaland Central Province of Zimbabwe. Studies have shown that Mashonaland Central has the highest incidence rate of gender based violence in Zimbabwe. Mining communities are more susceptible to incidences of gender based violence because of their cultural heterogeneity which engender and generate conflict. The research examines gender based violence within the confines of several theories and conceptual frameworks such as social-learning theory, sex-role theory and ecological framework. It reveals that no factor can be singled out as the cause of gender based violence, but argues that patriarchy whose norms are embedded through culture contributes the most in constructing attitudes and perceptions which legitimize gender based violence. The study also identifies religious practices and the environment as playing key roles in encouraging gender based violence. The study in the end constructs an intervention model based on the ‘catch them young theory’ where young boys were trained on non-violent strategies of reducing gender based violence. This is against the background that men play an influential role in communities as decision makers and policy makers. This intervention targeted changing the behavior and attitude of boys over women and girls.

Thesis (MPhil)--Stellenbosch University, 2004. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The level of unemployment in Lesotho has reached an alarming rate and this situation is compounded by massive mine retrenchments (Central Bank of Lesotho, 2001: 22). Given this background, it is imperative to gain a deeper understanding of the career life histories of retrenched Basotho migrant labourers in order to explain their perceptions/attitudes regarding education. In-depth individual interviews with 26 retrenched mineworkers were conducted for collecting data and a grounded theory approach was followed in analysing the data. The life histories of the men were critically investigated, from the time before they were employed in the mines, to the stage when they were working in the mining industries. The enquiry continued to a stage when they were retrenched from the mines. Their lives after retrenchment were looked at to establish whether they had acquired skills whilst they were employed in the mines. The objective was to determine whether the skills acquired were useful to them after retrenchment and if they could secure them employment in other sectors of the economy besides the mines. The study revealed that most of the migrant labourers had not acquired other skills besides those that were offered in the mines. As a result, all of the men were unemployed becausethey lacked skills that were relevant to the economy of Lesotho. Retrenched migrant labourers reported that education was important, especially for their children. For them, they indicated that they could pursue education if they would be employed in the mines again of it is offered where they would be employed, on the job training. The question is whether these men will secure employment in other sectors in Lesotho given that they lack relevant skills. It is advisable, therefore, for the government of Lesotho to facilitate career guidance in the country to encourage these men to acquire marketable skills and to promote employment creation. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die werkloosheidsyfer in Lesotho het 'n ontstellende vlak bereik en hierdie situasie word vererger deur massiewe afdankings by die myne (Central Bank of Lesotho, 2001: 22). Dit is dus noodsaaklik, gegee hierdie agtergrond dat 'n beter begrip van die beroepsgeskiedenisse van afgedankte Basotho trekarbeiders omskryf word om hulle persepsies/houdings jeens opvoeding vas te stel. Daar is individuele in-diepte onderhoude gevoer met 26 afgedankte mynwerkers om data in te samel en 'n gegronde teorie aanslag is gevolg in die analise van die data. Die lewensgeskiedenisse van die mans is krities ondersoek, vanaf die tydperk wat hulle in diens geneem is in die myne tot hulle indiensneming in die mynindustrieë. Die ondersoek sluit ook die afdankings periode in. Hulle lewens na afdanking is ook ondersoek om vas te stelof hulle vaardighede tydens hulle diens in die myne aangeleer het. Die doelstelling hiermee was om vas te stelof die aangeleerde vaardighede indiensname in ander sektore kon verseker na hulle afgedank is. Die studie toon dat die meeste trekarbeiders nie enige ander vaardighede aangeleer het as wat hulle in die myne gebruik het nie. Dit het daartoe gelei dat hulle nie geskik is vir werk in ander sektore aangesien hulle nie oor relevante vaardighede beskik nie. Afgedankte trekarbeiders het aangedui dat opvoeding belangrik is, veral vir hulle kinders. Hulle het wel aangedui dat hulle verdere opleiding sou wou ontvang indien hulle weer in diens geneem word of as deel van in-diens opleiding. Die kwessie is egter of hierdie mans in ander sektore in diens geneem sal word aangesien hulle nie oor die nodige vaardighede beskik nie. Dit word dus aanbeveel dat die Lesotho regering beroepsleiding te fasiliteer om hierdie mans aan te moedig om bemarkbare vaardighede te kry as ook om werkverskaffing aan te moedig.

The impact of a mandatory Part 48 training program on the health and safety knowledge level of newly employed inexperienced miners in Texas was studied. Part 48 training was defined by compliance with Mine Safety and Health Administration's (MSHA) mandatory health and safety training requirements. A two-group pretest, posttest research design was utilized. Group one individuals were newly employed inexperienced persons who received mandatory Part 48 training in accordance with MSHA guidelines. Group two subjects were newly employed inexperienced persons who worked for companies that were exempt from conducting a Part 48 training program. MSHA's health and safety knowledge inventory was utilized. A significant difference was found in the health and safety training program when compared with individuals who did not receive the training . A significant difference was also found in the posttest scores for eight of the ten subject areas of the MSHA health and safety knowledge inventory for persons who completed a Part 48 training program when compared to persons who did not receive the training . Analysis of gain scores resulted in significant differences in the same subject areas indicated by posttest scores. It was concluded that MSHA Part 48 did have a significant impact on the health and safety knowledge level of newly employed inexperienced miners. Additional implications noted relate to the impact of a Part 48 training program on accidents, productivity, absenteeism, turnover, job satisfaction and management styles; role of MSHA in miner training; development of new training materials; methods of training; and the evaluation of health and safety training programs.

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No. of bitstreams: 3 Ana Paula da Silva de liveira Ferreira-2012-dissertação-1.pdf: 19961442 bytes, checksum: 02ee8add91967fb371ca1ddc8ca60fdd (MD5) Ana Paula da Silva de liveira Ferreira-2012-dissertação-2.pdf: 4772588 bytes, checksum: cfea10aa015b1d7aebefc0179812f48d (MD5) license_rdf: 23148 bytes, checksum: 9da0b6dfac957114c6a7714714b86306 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-03-09 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / Peasant agriculture in Brazil has developed on the margins of the capitalist system. However, even without being designed the necessary conditions for their reproduction, it has reinvented itself in the everyday actions that articulate experiences, knowledge and social exchanges, which has allowed it to continue. Between 1970 and 1980 the city of Catalão (GO) mining companies received state capital and private territorializam in rural areas (where they live predominantly peasant families) to exploit the mineral deposits of niobium and phosphate, leading to a conflict over land use . Faced with this reality we set out to think about the occupation of a territory from two different rationales. On the one hand, the objective is the exploration of industrial minerals correspondent, and has another peasant families seeking resources on earth to live. We defined the objective of the research to understand the socioeconomic transformations, cultural and environmental factors that are occurring in the Community Macaúba depending on the process of territorial expansion and mining industries. The arrival of these companies has meant, for some, synonymous with economic growth and "development" for the city. On the other hand, generated a series of negative effects on the environment and the surrounding communities of the area occupied with the destruction of areas of Cerrado. There is also noise pollution, air and water, which directly affect the communities where these businesses are territorializaram like Macaúba Communities, located in the Catalão (GO). Another effect that affects the Community refers to the dispossession of peasant families who are forced to bear the effects, sometimes painful, this process. The effects of mining in the Community are social, economic, environmental and cultural. However, even with so many dead ends, the Community continues to exist, to reproduce itself, reinventing itself daily, to creating strategies that underlie this work and ties of solidarity, leisure and community life. There is an organization of the Community to continue to exist in a form of silent resistance, where the Community significance to their lives, their customs rescues as joint efforts, prayers, festivals, football, horseback riding. / A agricultura camponesa no Brasil tem se desenvolvido na marginalidade do sistema capitalista. No entanto, mesmo sem lhes ser concebida as devidas condições para sua reprodução, esta tem se reinventado em ações cotidianas que articulam experiências, saberes e trocas sociais, que tem lhe permitido continuar a existir. No período entre 1970 e 1980 o município de Catalão (GO) recebeu empresas mineradoras de capital estatal e privado que territorializam em área rural (onde moram predominantemente famílias camponesas) para explorar as jazidas minerais de nióbio e fosfato, ocasionando um conflito pelo uso do território. Diante desta realidade nos propusemos a pensar sobre a ocupação de um território a partir de duas racionalidades diferentes. De um lado, objetiva-se a exploração de minerais para a indústria correspondente, e de outro se tem famílias camponesas que buscam na terra os recursos para viverem. Delimitamos como objetivo geral da pesquisa compreender as transformações socioeconômicas, culturais e ambientais que estão ocorrendo na Comunidade Macaúba em função do processo de territorialização e expansão das indústrias mineradoras. A vinda dessas empresas significou, para alguns, sinônimo de crescimento econômico e “desenvolvimento” para a cidade. Por outro lado, gerou uma série de efeitos negativos para o meio ambiente e para as comunidades do entorno da área ocupada, com a destruição de áreas de Cerrado. Há também a poluição sonora, do ar e da água, que afetam diretamente as comunidades onde essas empresas se territorializaram, como a Comunidades Macaúba, localizada no município de Catalão (GO). Outro efeito que atinge a Comunidade refere-se à desterritorialização de famílias camponesas que se vêem obrigadas a arcarem com os efeitos, por vezes dolorosos, desse processo. Os efeitos das mineradoras na Comunidade são sociais, econômicos, ambientais e culturais. No entanto, mesmo diante de tantos impasses, a Comunidade continua a existir, a se reproduzir, se reinventando diariamente, criando para isso estratégias que perpassam o trabalho, laços de solidariedade, o lazer, a vida em comunidade. Há uma organização da Comunidade para continuar a existir, em uma forma de resistência silenciosa, onde a Comunidade resignifica suas existências, resgata seus costumes como os mutirões, as rezas, as festas, o futebol, a cavalgada.

Thesis (M. Dev.) -- University of Limpopo, 1999 / Refer to document

There are numerous histories of the Victorian goldfields, individual digger�s experiences, and the digging community as a whole. By contrast, very little has been written about the early gold mining companies. This thesis seeks to address this dearth in part, with a longitudinal study of one of the leading gold mining companies in nineteenth-century Victoria. The Port Phillip and Colonial Gold Mining Company (�Port Phillip Company�) was one of many �gold bubble� companies formed in England during 1851-3 to undertake gold mining in Australia. Within a few years it was the only survivor of this episode of British corporate gold-fever. The thesis argues that the influence of Rivett Henry Bland, the company�s managing director, was instrumental in its success, particularly in its early years when faced with anti-company sentiment and unfavourable mining legislation. The company established a large-scale operation at Clunes in 1857, rapidly assuming a pre-eminent position in colonial gold mining with its superior technology and mining practices. Historians generally portray Australian gold mining operations as small, locally funded and inefficient, prior to British capital investment in the late 1880s. While true of the larger picture, this simply emphasises the uniqueness of the British-owned and funded Port Phillip Company, the largest and most efficient gold mining operation in Australia from 1857 until the early 1880s. The company and its investment offshoot, the Victoria (London) Mining Company, invested in over thirty Victorian gold mining companies during the 1860s. Again, this runs counter to the general view that British investment in Australian gold mining began only in the late 1880s. Although the two companies� investments equalled only a fraction of the later wave of British capital in absolute monetary terms, their contribution to the growth of the Victorian gold mining industry at the time was significant.

Includes bibliographical references. / 1 v. (various foliations) : ill. (some col) ; 30 cm. / Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, Dept. of Community Medicine, 1994

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2002. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 409-425).