Article ID: CBB001320609

(Un)healthy Relationships: African Labourers, Profits and Health Services in Angola's Colonial-Era Diamond Mines, 1917--75 (2014)

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The Companhia de Diamantes de Angola, or Diamang, mined for diamonds in colonial Angola from 1917 until independence in 1975. The enterprise's Health Services Division (SSD) was responsible for supplying mine managers with an African labour force comprised of healthy, and therefore productive, employees. In practice, though, this otherwise `healthy' system did not always work. While SSD personnel attempted to fulfil their charge by implementing a series of screening measures, production targets and a scarcely-populated regional labour pool regularly prompted senior officials to compel the SSD to clear recruits who were otherwise unfit for mine service. Drawing upon interviews with former SSD staff and African labourers, as well as company and colonial archival sources, this article focuses on the interplay over time between the SSD, the company's production demands and these labourers. Keywords : Angola, Occupational Health, Colonialism, Forced Labour, Diamonds, Diamang

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Authors & Contributors
Pereira, Hugo Silveira
Azevedo, Mario J.
Selby Hearth
Wimmelbücker, Ludger
Calvão, Filipe
Maia, Andréa Casa Nova
Concepts
Colonialism
Labor and laborers
Health care
Cross-cultural interaction; cultural influence
Mines and mining
Imperialism
Time Periods
20th century, early
19th century
20th century
20th century, late
18th century
Modern
Places
Africa
Angola
Mozambique
Namibia
Portugal
Great Britain
Institutions
Kaiser-Wilhelm-Instituten
Royal Society of London
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