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Gold, Workers and Electricity, 1905–14

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South African electricity supply in 1905 was insignificant in world terms, but within a decade South Africa would have ‘the largest power-works in the world’,1 supplying ‘labour-saving’ machinery in the gold-mines of the Witwatersrand.

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Christie, R. (1984). Gold, Workers and Electricity, 1905–14. In: Electricity, Industry and Class in South Africa. St Antony’s Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-07030-5_2

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