From: Simon Katzenellenbogen
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Regarding the discussion of indentured, contract or indebted
Chinese labour, the employment of Chinese workers in South Africa
after the Boer War provides another example. This raised another set
of questions, with local merchants complaining that the Chinese
gambled their wages amongst themselves rather than spend it, while
reports of `unnatural sexual practices' caused sufficient stir to
make this an election issue in Britain.
The question is discussed in virtually all the standard texts on
South Africa, more particularly those concerned with early twentieth
century development. The major work on Chinese labour itself is of
course Peter Richardson, Chinese Mine Labour in the Transvaal (1982)
or, as a briefer introduction, his article `The recruiting of
Chinese Indentures [sic] Labour for the South African Gold Mines,
1903-1908' in the Journal of African History, Vol. XVIII (1977) pp.
85-108.
Simon Katzenellenbogen